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Kelly
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Frazier and Mosteller assert that medical resarch could be improved by a move toward larger, simpler clinical traicals of medical treatments. Currently, researchers collect far more background information on patients than is strictly required for their trials -substantially more than hospitals collect- thereby escalating costs of data collection, storage, and analysis. Although limiting information coellection could increase the risk that reserchers will overlook facts relevant to a study, Frazier and Mosteller contend that such rick, never entirely eliminable from research, would still be small in most studies. Only in research on entirely new treatments are new and unexpected variables likely to arise.
Frazier and Mosteller propose not only that resarchers limit data collection on individual pationts but also that researchers enroll more pationts in clinical trials, therby optaining a more representative sample of the total population to pationts who have no ailments besides those being studied. A treatment judged successful under these ideal conditions can then be evaluated under normal conditions. Broadening the range of trial participants, Frazier and Mosteller suggest, would enable researchers to evaluate a treatment's efficacy for fiverse pationts under various conditions and to evaluate its effectiveness for different patient subgroups. Fro example, the value of a treatment for a progressive disease may vary according to a patient's stage of disease. Pationts' ages may also affect a treatment's efficay.
1. According to the passage, Frazier and Mosteller believe which of the following about medical research?
A) It is seriously flawed as presently conducted because researchers overlook facts that are relevant to the subject of their research.
B) It tends to benefit certain subgroups of pationts disproportionately.
C) It routinely reveals new variables in research on entriely new treatments.
D) It can be made more accurate by limiting the amount of information researchers collect.
E) It cannot be freed of the risk that signigicant variables may be overlooked.
I answered as [spoiler]D but, the right answer was [spoiler]B.
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Frazier and Mosteller propose not only that resarchers limit data collection on individual pationts but also that researchers enroll more pationts in clinical trials, therby optaining a more representative sample of the total population to pationts who have no ailments besides those being studied. A treatment judged successful under these ideal conditions can then be evaluated under normal conditions. Broadening the range of trial participants, Frazier and Mosteller suggest, would enable researchers to evaluate a treatment's efficacy for fiverse pationts under various conditions and to evaluate its effectiveness for different patient subgroups. Fro example, the value of a treatment for a progressive disease may vary according to a patient's stage of disease. Pationts' ages may also affect a treatment's efficay.
1. According to the passage, Frazier and Mosteller believe which of the following about medical research?
A) It is seriously flawed as presently conducted because researchers overlook facts that are relevant to the subject of their research.
B) It tends to benefit certain subgroups of pationts disproportionately.
C) It routinely reveals new variables in research on entriely new treatments.
D) It can be made more accurate by limiting the amount of information researchers collect.
E) It cannot be freed of the risk that signigicant variables may be overlooked.
I answered as [spoiler]D but, the right answer was [spoiler]B.
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