Most psychotherapies do not really work, but those that might work should be assessed in biased studies

Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 436-438

  Ioannidis, J P A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; psychotherapy; randomised trials

Indexed keywords

CONTROL GROUP; DATA ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; EFFECT SIZE; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; PATIENT DROPOUT; PLACEBO EFFECT; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SAMPLE SIZE; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84960130270     PISSN: 20457960     EISSN: 20457979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S2045796015000888     Document Type: Note

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