Question: The first question is opinion and/or experience-based so that you can begin the discussion immediately without having completed all of your readings. You must apply

The first question is opinion and/or experience-based so that you can begin the discussion immediately without having completed all of your readings. You must apply your assigned readings to subsequent questions. You are working with a pharmaceutical company to develop a new drug to treat disease X. Your company comes up with two potential treatments and the outcome of interest is cure. For instance, 0=No cure, 1=Cure and an OR>1 represents a greater chance of cure. The first treatment, Drug A was developed two years ago and has been tested on 1,000 people with an OR for cure of 1.05 and a 95% CI of (1.04, 1.06) and a p-value < 0.01. The second treatment, Drug B was developed only a few months ago and has been tested on 50 people with an OR for cure of 1.75 and a 95% CI of (.99, 3.50) and a p-value > 0.05. Based on this information if you had disease X which treatment would you prefer and why

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