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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 3.1

 

Do these data demonstrate Drug X is effective?

You answered:

Yes
  The data demonstrate that Drug X is an effective analgesic in this condition.

Treatments were placebo, Drug X, and morphine.  The figure shows that both Drug X and Morphine gave a large amount of relief, similar to each other.  Both were statistically superior to placebo.

CORRECT

These data demonstrate that Drug X is an effective analgesic in this condition because it is more effective than the placebo.

 

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