1. The most effective, proven, and widely accepted medical treatment or intervention for a particular condition, serving as the benchmark against which other treatments are compared
Chemotherapy remains the gold standard treatment for many types of cancer.
A quimioterapia permanece como o tratamento padrão-ouro para muitos tipos de câncer.
2. In medical research and clinical practice, the treatment considered most reliable and effective as a reference point for evaluating new therapies
The new drug was compared against the gold standard treatment in the clinical trial.
O novo medicamento foi comparado com o tratamento padrão-ouro no ensaio clínico.