Expected Benefits of Common Cold Treatments

For each of the following treatments, please indicate your opinion regarding:

  • the expected degree of severity and duration benefit
  • the strength of evidence behind this judgment
  • whether or not these benefits are sufficient to justify associated costs and risks

If you think that specific formulations in a treatment category vary, please consider the one you think most effective, using optimal dosing and timing. Please feel free to qualify your answers with any comments you think appropriate. Please consider overall severity reduction as area-under-the-curve, as depicted in the following graphic:

Cold study survey criterion

Please evaluate the following 8 treatment types, selecting the option that best represents your opinion regarding treatment benefits and strength of evidence. This should take 5-10 minutes.

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