Test your knowledge: Why treatment uncertainties should be addressed

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This quiz is based on JLL Essay 1.1 – Why treatment uncertainties should be addressed.

JLL Quiz 1.1

Why treatment uncertainties
should be addressed

Multiple-choice questions for Chapter 1.1 of The James Lind Library’s Introduction to Fair Tests of Treatments

Prepared by Mike Clarke.

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Who might cause harm to others if they give or encourage the use of unproven treatments?

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Who wrote, at the end of the nineteenth century, that too little bleeding was done to treat patients?

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What harmful advice did Dr Benjamin Spock give?

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How many people were estimated to have been killed by taking anti-arrhythmic drugs after a heart attack in the USA in the 1980s?

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What is the main reason for doing fair tests of treatments?

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References

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