Medical Experiments, Such as One to Compare Aspirin with a Placebo

question 18

Multiple Choice

Medical experiments, such as one to compare aspirin with a placebo for preventing heart attacks, are often double-blind. This means that

• A) neither the subject nor the doctors know which treatment the patient received.
• B) subjects choose which treatment they get, but do not tell the doctors.
• C) the doctors choose which treatment to give each subject, but do not tell the subjects.
• D) subjects are not told either their treatment or their medical condition.
• E) all individual data are kept confidential.

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Definitions:

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