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Preventive & Social Medicine (Community Medicine) is a difficult branch to understand ... leave alone the aspect of liking it. Nonetheless, it is an important overarching medical subject encompassing clinical medicine, human behaviour, environment and many more.
Many students keep asking me a lot of exam questions again and again. The aim of this blog is to answer various queries and difficult concepts pertaining to this subject.
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Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Potential benefits of a randomized clinical trial are all except:

a. The likelihood that the study groups will be comparable is increased
b. Self-selection for a particular treatment is eliminated
c. External validity of the study is increased
d. Assignment of the next subject cannot be predicted



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Ans: c. External validity of the study is increased

External Validity depends on how representative are the study subjects "selected" for the RCT. Randomization will start after selection of subjects for the study.

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