Co-intervention bias

Knowledge of which treatments have been received by which study participants can affect adherence to assigned treatments and result in the biased use of other treatments (co-interventions). These biases can be reduced by using placebos to conceal the identities of the treatments being compared.


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2.3 Why avoiding differences between treatments allocated and treatments received is important

Helping people to stick to allocated treatments  

 

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