Patient Expectations of Assigned Treatments Impact Strength of Randomised Control Trials

Patient engagement with treatments potentially poses problems for interpreting the results and meaning of Randomised Control Trials (RCTs). If patients are assigned to treatments that do, or do not, match their expectations, and this impacts their motivation to engage with that treatment, it will af...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Roberto Truzoli, Phil Reed, Lisa A. Osborne
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Medicine
Subjects:
RCT
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmed.2021.648403/full