Randomized Clinical Trials

Randomized clinical trials are an integral part of epidemiology and medicine. Randomized clinical trials provide excellent methodology for studying the effects of a treatment, intervention/exposure on disease/outcome status. After reviewing the chapters in Gordis and the lectures online related to randomized clinical trials, briefly design a randomized trial of interest. Please discuss the following in detail: 1. What is the overall question/hypothesis you want to answer by doing this trial? Provide background information (a short literature review) on the topic. 2. The exposure and treatment groups; including randomization (instead of just using a medication, think outside the box; discuss how you would assess the exposure) 3. State outcome/disease of interest and provide background information and how you would measure this? 4. What results are you expecting from the study? 5. How would you get people to participate in this trial? Incentives? In order to receive credit, you must post to this board and reply to at least one other classmate’s thread.