Tolerability

Usually refers to medically less important (that is, without serious or permanent effects), but unpleasant adverse effects of drugs. These include symptoms such as dry mouth or tiredness, that can affect a person’s quality of life and willingness to continue the treatmentSomething done with the aim of improving health or relieving suffering. For example, medicines, surgery, psychological and physical therapies, diet and exercise changes.. As these adverse effects usually develop early on and are relatively frequent, randomisedRandomization is the process of randomly dividing into groups the people taking part in a trial. One group (the intervention group) will be given the intervention being tested (for example a drug, surgery, or exercise) and compared with a group which does not receive the intervention (the control group).   controlled trialsA trial in which a group (the ‘intervention group’) is given a intervention being tested (for example a drug, surgery, or exercise) is compared with a group which does not receive the intervention (the ‘control group’). may yield reliable dataData is the information collected through research. about how common they are.