A Physician Wants to Test the Effectiveness of a New

question 12

Multiple Choice

A physician wants to test the effectiveness of a new allergy medication.The physician consults a researcher who regularly conducts clinical trials.The physician tells the researcher that she has a backlog of 100 patients she is treating effectively with the current leading medication,but who could potentially benefit even more from the new medication.The researcher recommends that the physician do a true experiment because of the availability of

• A) a waiting-list control group.
• B) a quasi-treatment control group.
• C) an excess-demand control group.
• D) a convenience control group.

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