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The Hawthorne Effect

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It is widely recognized that using well-conducted randomized clinical trials (RCTs) to evaluate the efficacy of treatments is beneficial to society in the long run. Harmful or ineffective treatments can be dropped and replaced by effective ones. However, short-term effects of RCTs—the effects before the results are known, essentially ‘side effects’ of RCTs—should also be evaluated

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  1. Department of Periodontology, University of Tromsø Institute of Clinical Dentistry, Tromsø, Norway

    Alexandrina L. Dumitrescu

  2. Private practice, Bucharest, Romania

    Alexandrina L. Dumitrescu

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Dumitrescu, A.L. (2012). The Hawthorne Effect. In: Understanding Periodontal Research. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28923-1_15

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