Question

You are a quality improvement specialist at ACME Pharmaceutical Company, working on a new study of an experimental COVID anti-viral medication.

The drug is scheduled to be approved later this year. The CEO of your company says he would like you to gather evidence in a real-world setting with a heterogeneous population, with few to no exclusion critera alongside a few potential concurrent interventions.

Which of the following types of studies would be best?

Group of answer choices

Effectiveness Study

Ecological Study

Efficacy Study

Case series Study

Case-control Study

Answer 1

The best option would be an effectiveness study.

Explaination :The effectiveness study helps to gather the data in a real world populations, these studies have interventions under no strict study protocols. These study population are heterogenous in nature and these take place in a real time clinical settings.

Ecological study : best for a prevalence or incidence based Rudy in a geographical area.

Efficacy study : not conducted in a real world environment.

Case series : lack of heterogeneity of data.

Case control : lack of heterogeneity of data. Best for comparison of two interventions.