Patient Oriented Research

**Semantic type:** Research Activity

**Definition:** Studies of living individuals or groups of subjects (such as families, communities, or populations defined geographically or demographically), or material of human origin (such as tissues, specimens, and cognitive phenomena, etc.), for understanding of their physiologic and pathophysiologic characteristics, mechanisms of human diseases and development of approaches to diseases treatment and prevention. Includes the laboratory-based development of new forms of technology, studies of health-related professions, institutions, and systems, excludes disease-oriented studies of material, obtained from patients who were unknown to investigators.