This term is usually used to differentiate studies involving real live patients (e.g. a trial of a new type of physiotherapy, clinical research) from work based in a test tube, in a laboratory (basic scientific research). In rheumatology we need both. Basic scientists have been responsible for much of our knowledge about what goes wrong in a joint in a patient with arthritis.
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