Assertion: trial's patient | /r/CapableOf | receive placebo
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text: These are controlled for by the inclusion of patients who receive only a placebo.
text: It is a challenge to find the appropriate patients and obtain their consent, especially when they may receive no direct benefit (because they are not paid, the study drug is not yet proven to work, or the patient may receive a placebo).
text: Only members of the research team not involved in providing day-to-day clinical care will know which patients are receiving an active treatment or a placebo.
text: More than 1,000 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 received either remdesivir or a placebo.
text: In the trial above, it would have been unethical to expect patients to receive placebo and therefore tolerate a period when no effective treatment for central neuropathic pain was offered.