[Answered]: Imagine you are a health care professional who…

Imagine you are a health care professional who has been assigned a new patient with a diagnosis you are not familiar with. Researching the best treatments for this condition you come across two articles with conflictive findings. One of the articles is a randomized controlled trial (RCT) of the treatment and the other is a case control study with a small sample. The RCT found the treatment to be “not very effective”. The case study found the treatment to be “fairly effective”. Which study do you trust? The randomized controlled trial The case controlled study You have to weight both equally Since they conflict, reject both