Randomised control trial

  • June 28, 2020
  • Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
  • Category: DPN Topics
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Subject: Science and tech

Context:

PatanjaliAyurved claimed ‘Coronil’ and ‘Swasari’ would cure COVID-19 in only seven days and claimed that a randomised controlled trial (RCT) among COVID-19 positive patients had proved favourable results.

Concept:

  • A randomised controlled trial is an experiment that is designed to isolate the influence that a certain intervention or variable has on an outcome or event.
  • In medical field, it is a study in which people are allocated at random, entirely by chance, to receive one of several clinical interventions.
  • The intervention may be standard practice/treatment options, a placebo (a drug without an active substance, or a ‘sugar pill’), or no intervention at all.
  • The idea is to measure and compare the outcomes against the control after the participants receive the treatment.
Randomised control trial Science and tech

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