Effectiveness as an outcome measure for treatment trials in psychiatry
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Effectiveness as an outcome measure for treatment trials in psychiatry.
There is at present some confusion about the relative value of clinical trials performed to investigate efficacy vs. those designed to investigate effectiveness. This is particularly challenging when studies performed as experiments for regulators by companies are used to shape and inform clinical practice, especially if studies conducted under more real life conditions fail to support predicte...
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عنوان ژورنال: World Psychiatry
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1723-8617
DOI: 10.1002/j.2051-5545.2009.tb00200.x