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In the basic clinical trials design, patients with a particular disease or other characteristics of interest are randomized to treatment assignment and are then followed to determine the proportion of patients in each treatment group that reaches a prespecified outcome. The outcome could be "cure" or disease remission, death, or many other outcomes. Ultimately, the goal is to make inferences about the efficacy of the treatment to the population from which the study population was drawn.