A Physician Wants to Know Whether Acupuncture Is an Effective

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Essay

A physician wants to know whether acupuncture is an effective treatment for chronic pain. She recruits a sample of patients who suffer from chronic shoulder pain and has each participant sign a statement of informed consent. Participants are then assigned randomly to an experimental group that receives weekly acupuncture treatments or to a control group that receives a weekly placebo treatment that is known to have no effect on pain. After four weeks, she finds that the participants in the experimental group report significantly less pain than do participants in the control group. Comment on the ethical acceptability of withholding the acupuncture treatment from the control group during this experiment. Is it OK or not? Explain why.

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Definitions:

Nonsteroidal Antiinflammatory Drugs

A class of drugs that reduce pain, decrease fever, prevent blood clots, and in higher doses, decrease inflammation.

Gastric Residual Volume

The amount of content remaining in the stomach after a period of digestion, important in assessing gastrointestinal motility and feeding tolerance.

Enteral Feeding

A method of nutritional support where a special diet is delivered directly into the stomach or small intestine, usually through a tube.

Elevate Head

A positioning technique where the head of a bed or patient is raised, typically to improve breathing or digestion.