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post-marketing surveillance trial  listen  (post-MAR-keh-ting ser-VAY-lents TRY-ul)

  A type of clinical trial that studies the side effects of a treatment after it has been approved and is being marketed. These trials include thousands of people and look for side effects that were not seen in earlier trials. Also called phase IV trial.