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Multiple choice general knowledge

In a clinical trial of a drug to improve the survival rate following heart attacks:

  1. cases receiving the drug should be matched with controls by age and sex.

  2. subjects should be a random sample of patients from a large population.

  3. if possible, written informed consent should be obtained before patients can be admitted

  4. subjects should be told whether they are receiving the test drug or not.

  5. the admitting clinician should know what drug the patient will receive before admitting
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Multiple choice general knowledge

In a double blind clinical trial:

  1. the patients do not know which treatment they receive

  2. each patient receives a placebo.

  3. the patients do not know they are in a trial.

  4. each patient receives both treatments

  5. the clinician assessing the patients' condition does not know which treatment the patient
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Multiple choice general knowledge

Analogue research involves

  1. Undertaking research to determine the efficacy of treatments and interventions.

  2. Undertaking research to compare the effectiveness of two different types of treatment.

  3. Undertaking research on clinical populations

  4. Undertaking research on healthy, non-clinical populations
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