A Nurse Clinician Reads That in an Experimental Study with Two

question 3

Multiple Choice

A nurse clinician reads that in an experimental study with two treatment groups and one control group,the hazard ratio between the two treatment groups was 3.0.How should this be most accurately interpreted?

• A) The slopes of the two groups were identical.
• B) Three groups were used for the analysis.
• C) The rate of deaths in one treatment group was three times the rate of the other.
• D) The rate at which subjects escaped bad outcomes.

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