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Quality of a Clinical Trial

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To close the gap between evidence-based behavioral treatments for chronic diseases and their uptake in clinical practice, this book aims to encourage the development of evidence for the value of behavioral treatments that meets the standards for quality that exist in medicine. Evidence for quality is strongest in Phase III efficacy trials which follow the agreed-upon “rules” for clinical trial methods. In the behavioral clinical trial literature, there are many more Phase II than Phase III trials. What is needed is not a larger quantity of such evidence, but a higher quality of evidence using the standards that exist in medicine. This book applies a progressive, translational science model to achieve that goal.

“Knowing is not enough; we must apply.

Willing is not enough; we must do.”

Goethe (1749–1832)

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  1. Department of Preventive Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA

    Lynda H. Powell

  2. College of Nursing, Villanova University, Villanova, PA, USA

    Peter G. Kaufmann

  3. Department of Psychiatry, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA

    Kenneth E. Freedland

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Powell, L.H., Kaufmann, P.G., Freedland, K.E. (2021). Quality of a Clinical Trial. In: Behavioral Clinical Trials for Chronic Diseases. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39330-4_2

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