Source:http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/umls/id/C0150108
MCM: The term may be modified according to the purpose of the blinding. For example, clinicians or patients can be blind to the treatments that patients are receiving and observers can be blind to each other's assessments, making their observations uninfluenced by one another. To avoid confusion, the term MASKED is preferred in studies in which vision loss of patients is an outcome of interest.,NCI: A characteristic of experiment design in which one or more groups involved (receiving, administering, or evaluating intervention) are unaware of which intervention any particular subject is receiving.