Chapter 6: Human Research Flashcards
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Blinding
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A procedure for ensuring that researchers and research participants don’t know which intervention the participants received
2
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Clinical Trial
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A scientific study designed to systematically test a medical intervention in humans.
3
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Placebo
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An inactive or sham treatment
4
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Randomization
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The assigning of subjects randomly to both experimental and control groups.
5
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Equipoise
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When researches don’t have reason to believe that a particular treatment is better than another; may help justify the use of control/placebo groups in clinical trials (since it’s unclear if control group participants are being denied effective treatment)
