Control Treatment

A Control Treatment is an experiment treatment that a test treatment is compared against (during a comparative experiment).

• AKA: Active Control, Standard Treatment, Comparator Treatment.
• Context:
  • It can (typically) have understood behavior.
  • It can range from being an Active Control Treatment or an Inactive Control Treatment/Placebo Treatment.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • Test Treatment.
• See: Cluster Randomized Experiment.

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References

2011

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_treatment
  • QUOTE: Standard treatment (Active Control). The treatment that is normally provided to people with a given condition. In many studies, a control group receives the standard treatment while a treatment group receives the experimental treatment. After the clinical trial, researchers compare the outcomes of the two groups to see if the experimental treatment is better than, as good as or not as beneficial as the standard treatment.

2010

• (ClinicaTrials.gov, 2010) ⇒ ClinicalTrials.gov. (2010). “Glossary of Clinical Trials Terms." (2010-09-21)
  • QUOTE: STANDARD TREATMENT: A treatment currently in wide use and approved by the FDA, considered to be effective in the treatment of a specific disease or condition.

2007

• (Parienti & Kuss, 2007) ⇒ Jean-Jacques Parienti, and Oliver Kuss. (2007). “Cluster-Crossover Design: A method for limiting clusters level effect in community-intervention studies.” In: Contemporary Clinical Trials, 28(3). doi:10.1016/j.cct.2006.10.004
  • QUOTE: The word “crossover” is mainly used to describe experiments in which all subjects receive both the test and control treatments, usually delivered by the same team. In cluster-crossover studies, the statistical units are generally assigned to only one of the treatments

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