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Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Randomised Clinical Trials

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#1 · The_Burglar

23 Jul 2020

Could you get the same results if each partial treatment is random

Examples:-

Current trial 50% receive the drug for 10 treatments and 50% get 10 placebos

Compared with a trail where each treatment is random, if 10 treatments then 1 in 1024 chance of receiving drug each time,

same chance to get placebo, the rest as in a binomial distribution

The idea been if a drug is worth testing then limit the chance of zero and 100% use happening

This was triggered by Dr John Campbell stating when he was applying a trail he knew that the patient was on placebo because no reaction

and likely to die