OHOK Start Quiz

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Are you taking the quiz before or after reading through the course topics?
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Why is it important that healthcare is evidence based?
A - It helps us make better health choices
B - It means doctors can spend less time in consultations.
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Which is true?
A - Palliative care aims to cure disease
B - Preventative care aims to stop disease from happening
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If we are recommended a treatment we are told is proven to work, should we question its use?
A- No, because it is shown to work
B- No, because the treatment has been recommended
C -Yes, because it may not help with something that is important to us
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What do you think about side effects?
A - We need to know the chances and extent of side effects to balance this with the chances of benefiting
B - All medicines have side effects, and it’s important to take tablets as the doctor tells you to
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What is health screening?
A- When someone has a symptom they quickly have further tests to pick up problems early
B- Searching for disease in someone who feels well and has no symptoms related to the test
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Is health screening always beneficial?
A- Yes, early diagnosis through screening always leads to living longer
B- It is a mixture of pros and cons and people should choose what is right for them
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Which of these are the most reliable sources of health information? You can choose more than one.
A - Early medical research breakthroughs
B - Commercial organisations or individuals selling products
C - Newspaper or magazine news articles
D - Internet adverts for new cures or treatments
E - Reviews of all the evidence on a topic in mainstream medical journals
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A new treatment for cancer is reported in the news, and someone you love has this cancer. Which of these can help work out what to do? You can choose more than one.
A - Consulting NHS Behind the Headlines
B - Asking for the absolute risks of benefit and harm and what is being measured
C- Searching for any relevant conflicts of interest
D - Order the treatment online to see if it helps
E - Speaking to the doctor or nurse looking after your loved one
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Clinical trials (you can choose more than one)
A - Are a way of fairly testing treatments to make sure they are useful and don’t cause unacceptable harms
B - Are a way of making sure that doctors are not biased when recommending treatments
C - Are a good way of becoming more certain about what treatments are useful
D - Are important to do even if it turns out that a treatment was not useful
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Placebos in clinical trials
A - Are used to trick people into thinking that they are getting a ‘real' treatment
B - Are used to try and work out what would have happened without the treatment being tested
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