Van Nood Et Al

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Van Nood et al. (2013) studied patients with "Clostridium difficile" infections, which cause persistent diarrhea. One variable was treatment: some patients were given the antibiotic vancomycin, and some patients were given a fecal transplant. The other variable was whether the patient was cured (cured or not cured). Van Nood randomly assigned an equal number of patients to each treatment. The researchers found that 18% of the patients in the antibiotic vancomycin treatment group were cured, whereas 69% of patients in the fecal transplant were cured.
-Out of 100 Clostridium difficile patients taking the antibiotic vancomycin, 18 of them will be cured.