Accounting for Behavior in Treatment Effects: New Applications for Blind Trials.

The double-blind randomized controlled trial (DBRCT) is the gold standard of medical research. We show that DBRCTs fail to fully account for the efficacy of treatment if there are interactions between treatment and behavior, for example, if a treatment is more effective when patients change their ex...

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Main Authors: Sylvain Chassang, Erik Snowberg, Ben Seymour, Cayley Bowles
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4465691?pdf=render