{"id":21554,"date":"2023-06-07T13:08:32","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T13:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/a-rct-is-considered-the-most-scientifically-rigorous-study-design-chapter-7-p-158\/"},"modified":"2023-06-07T13:08:32","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T13:08:32","slug":"a-rct-is-considered-the-most-scientifically-rigorous-study-design-chapter-7-p-158","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/a-rct-is-considered-the-most-scientifically-rigorous-study-design-chapter-7-p-158\/","title":{"rendered":"A RCT is &#8220;considered the most scientifically rigorous study design&#8230;&#8221; (chapter 7, p.158)."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"font-size: 14px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<p style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Former President Trump began taking a drug which supposedly prevented Covid-19 after exposure to the coronavirus in Spring 2020, but there was little research to support this claim:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 14px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<p style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><a style=\"cursor: auto;\">https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/05\/18\/politics\/donald-trump-hydroxychloroquine-coronavirus\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 14px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<p style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Now, a randomized controlled trial (RCT), the gold standard of study designs, has proven that hydroxychloroquine does not prevent Covid-19.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 14px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<p style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><a style=\"cursor: auto;\">https:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMoa2016638?cookieSet=1<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<p style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">A RCT is &#8220;considered the most scientifically rigorous study design&#8230;&#8221; (chapter 7, p.158).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><a style=\"cursor: auto;\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<p style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">In 250 of your own words, but with reference to the textbook and the NEJM article to understand the rigorous research that needs to be done to assess the safety of medical advice, what is your opinion on former President Trump telling the public he had taken hydroxychloroquine? Does it matter that former President Trump took this drug and told the world about it?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Trump began taking a drug which supposedly prevented Covid-19 after exposure to the coronavirus in Spring 2020, but there was little research to support this claim: https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/05\/18\/politics\/donald-trump-hydroxychloroquine-coronavirus\/index.html Now, a randomized controlled trial (RCT), the gold standard of study designs, has proven that hydroxychloroquine does not prevent Covid-19. https:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMoa2016638?cookieSet=1 A RCT is &#8220;considered the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[706],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/21554"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/21554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=21554"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=21554"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=21554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}