Foundations Ch.8
0.01 -✅✅ -A randomized controlled trial reports that 2% of the patients in the
active treatment group had a heart attack vs. 3% of the patients in the placebo
group. What would be the absolute risk reduction?
0.33 -✅✅ -A randomized controlled trial of heart attack prevention reports
that only 2% of the patients in the active treatment group had a heart attack
vs. 3% of the patients in the placebo group. What would be the relative risk
reduction?
100 - ✅✅ -A randomized controlled trial reports that 2% of the patients in the
active treatment group had a heart attack vs. 3% of the patients in the placebo
group. What would be the number needed to treat?
Adherence - ✅✅ -__________ is the degree to which patients are able to
sustain a treatment regimen according to how it was prescribed.
Adverse events - ✅✅ -__________ is/are any undesirable experience that is
observed during a clinical trial and associated with the use of a medical
product in a patient.
✅✅-Studies of treatment may use which of the
All of these are correct -
following methodologies?
Case-control study - ✅✅ -Studies of harm generally use which of the
following methodologies?
Dosage - ✅✅ -The amount and frequency of administering a treatment is
referred to as:
Efficacy -✅✅ -Which of the following terms is best defined as "the ability of
an intervention to produce the desired or beneficial effect"?
Equivalence margin - ✅✅ -The __________ show(s) the range within which
two treatments may differ and still be deemed to be substantially equivalent.
Equivalence trial -✅✅ -A/an __________ determines if two interventions are
similar enough to be deemed essentially equivalent.
0.01 -✅✅ -A randomized controlled trial reports that 2% of the patients in the
active treatment group had a heart attack vs. 3% of the patients in the placebo
group. What would be the absolute risk reduction?
0.33 -✅✅ -A randomized controlled trial of heart attack prevention reports
that only 2% of the patients in the active treatment group had a heart attack
vs. 3% of the patients in the placebo group. What would be the relative risk
reduction?
100 - ✅✅ -A randomized controlled trial reports that 2% of the patients in the
active treatment group had a heart attack vs. 3% of the patients in the placebo
group. What would be the number needed to treat?
Adherence - ✅✅ -__________ is the degree to which patients are able to
sustain a treatment regimen according to how it was prescribed.
Adverse events - ✅✅ -__________ is/are any undesirable experience that is
observed during a clinical trial and associated with the use of a medical
product in a patient.
✅✅-Studies of treatment may use which of the
All of these are correct -
following methodologies?
Case-control study - ✅✅ -Studies of harm generally use which of the
following methodologies?
Dosage - ✅✅ -The amount and frequency of administering a treatment is
referred to as:
Efficacy -✅✅ -Which of the following terms is best defined as "the ability of
an intervention to produce the desired or beneficial effect"?
Equivalence margin - ✅✅ -The __________ show(s) the range within which
two treatments may differ and still be deemed to be substantially equivalent.
Equivalence trial -✅✅ -A/an __________ determines if two interventions are
similar enough to be deemed essentially equivalent.
