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random controlled trial
Etymology: ME, randoun, run violently; Fr, contrôle, check, trier, to grind
a study plan for a proposed new treatment in which subjects are assigned on a random basis to participate either in an experimental group receiving the new treatment or in a control group that does not.

random controlled trial,
n a study plan for a proposed new treatment in which subjects are assigned on a random basis to participate in either an experimental group receiving the new treatment or a control group that does not.


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A random controlled trial compared nine months of home-based family-focused therapy with medication to pharmacotherapy and two sessions of crisis management (Miklowitz, 2007).
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It would be impossible for a random controlled trial to take into account external situations such as a fracturing marriage, insomnia, a pending layoff, or a teenage child's perermial defiance's effect on a parent's nerves when the treatment is a strict behavior modification program for something like smoking cessation.
 
 
 
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