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Use the Internet to research a medication of your choice and the probability of adverse side effects. Compare this medication to the one being studied in this discussion.

Module 3 DiscussionA new medication is being evaluated before going to market. One part of this process is evaluating side effects. The following data was recorded based on if the individual is receiving the treatment or placebo and whether they experienced adverse side effects during the trial.MedicationAdverse SideEffectsYESAdverse SideEffectsNOTOTALSTreatment 112 1,350 1,462Placebo 32 1,580 1,612TOTALS […]

Design your research question aimed at solving (a part of) the problem and include the following components which will focus the literature review.

Assignment Formulating the Research Question, Problem Statement, Research Purpose First share your refined problem and proposed solution (given your review of literature this may have changed depending on the evidence you were able to provide). Next, follow the steps to help define your research question. Craft the problem statement and research purpose. Design your research […]

How many factors and dependent variables does this analysis have? Should the threshold for the test of each dependent variable be 5%?

Assignment In order to evaluate the effect of a drug over a disease a pharmaceutical company wants to perform a study comparing the effect of the drug with placebo. The drug and the placebo will be delivered to both male and female patients to verify any possible different response of the two sexes. The effect […]

When performing this analysis, which of the values below is closest to the χ2 value they would compare the calculated value to in order to determine significance at the 5% level?

Assignment Consider an experiment in which a pharmaceutical company is testing a new drug that it hopes will lower cholesterol levels. The scientists administer three treatments: a dose of the drug, a dose of a placebo, and a control group that receives neither drug nor placebo. After 24 hours, they then measured the cholesterol levels […]

What are the characteristics of the patient or population?

PICOT Question: Management of Diabetes to prevent diabetes related complications Patient, Population or Problem 1. What are the characteristics of the patient or population? 2. What is the condition or disease you are interested in? Intervention or exposure 3. What do you want to do with this patient (e.g. treat, diagnose, observe)? Comparison 4. What […]

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