According to the principle of clinical equipoise, it is unacceptable to conduct a study comparing two treatments when ____.
A) the treatments are known to be equally effective
B) there is no information about the effectiveness of either treatment
C) one treatment is known to be more effective than the other
D) experts disagree about the effectiveness of the treatments

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According to the principle of clinical equipoise, it is unacceptable to conduct a study comparing two treatments when one treatment is known to be more effective than the other. This is because it would be unethical to expose study participants to an inferior treatment when a better one is available.

According to the Principle of Clinical Equipoise, It Is Unacceptable