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Trial Design: Pain Sections
Author Bio
Introduction
Placebo Effects
Currently selected section: Single Dose Trials
Repeated Dose Trials
Explanatory Versus Pragmatic
Dose-Response
Parallel Group Versus Crossover
Conclusion
 

 

 

Chapter 1: Clinical Trials of Pain Treatment: Single Dose Trials: Question 3.4
        

What can you conclude about Drug X’s effectiveness?

You answered:

Selection BThe result is inconclusive.

Treatments were placebo, drug X, and morphine. Morphine gave a large amount of relief, statistically superior to the low-relief drug X and placebo, which were similar to each other.

INCORRECT

These results are conclusive. This study suggests that Drug X is ineffective in this condition. The superiority of morphine to placebo (and Drug X) demonstrates the sensitivity of the assay.

 

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