ENROLLMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does enrollment mean? 

• ENROLLMENT (noun)
  The noun ENROLLMENT has 2 senses:

1. the act of enrolling

2. the body of people (such as students) who register or enroll at the same time

  Familiarity information: ENROLLMENT used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENROLLMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of enrolling

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

enrollment; enrolment; registration

Hypernyms ("enrollment" is a kind of...):

entering; entrance; entry; incoming; ingress (the act of entering)

Derivation:

enroll (register formally as a participant or member)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The body of people (such as students) who register or enroll at the same time

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

enrollment; registration

Hypernyms ("enrollment" is a kind of...):

body (a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity)

 Context examples 

Total estimated length of time of subject's participation in a clinical study; from the time of enrollment to the completion of follow-up as documented in the study protocol.

(Planned Duration of Study Subject Participation, NCI Thesaurus)

Refers to the closing of a study to further enrollment.

(Closure, NCI Thesaurus)

The researchers compared brain scans of 449 participants that were taken at enrollment and four years later.

(Intensive blood pressure control may slow age-related brain damage, National Institutes of Health)

A coded value specifying the temporal relationship of observation period to time of subject enrollment.

(Observational Study Protocol Version Time Perspective Code, NCI Thesaurus)

Defines the status of a clinical study site in relation to the subject enrollment at a particular time.

(Clinical Study Site Accrual Status, NCI Thesaurus)

The study began recruiting participants in April 1992 and closed enrollment in September 1997.

(Breast Cancer Prevention Trial, NCI Thesaurus)

Defines the status of an entire study or a study at a particular study site in relation to the subject enrollment at a particular time.

(Accrual Status, NCI Thesaurus)

Cognitive tests at enrollment showed that 46 participants had previously undiagnosed mild Alzheimer’s disease or mild cognitive impairment that mostly affected memory.

(Study Points to Possible Blood Test For Memory Decline, Alzheimer’s, NIH)

EXAMPLE(S): IRB Approval, site enrollment, FDA audit

(Performed Study Administrative Activity, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

The data associated with the performed study describes quantitatively and qualitatively actual observations and events occurring in the study after its approval, such as actual accrual numbers, dates of subject enrollment, etc.

(Performed Clinical Study, NCI Thesaurus)