Objective: Efficacy studies using randomized controlled trials (RCTs), on which empirically supported treatments are based, are often rejected as having little if any relevance to clinical practice. RCTs are faulted for allegedly excluding poor prognosis patients and therapists and treatments that a
Randomization Modelling of the Crossover Experiment for Clinical Trials
β Scribed by O. Gomez-Marin; R. B. McHugh
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1984
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 701 KB
- Volume
- 26
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0323-3847
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