Consumption outcomes in clinical trials of alcohol use disorder treatment: Consideration of standard drink misestimation.

CONCLUSIONS: Drink size misestimation may lead to inaccurate conclusions about drinking outcomes and the comparative effectiveness of AUD treatments, including inflated type-II error rates, particularly when treatment "success" is defined by binary outcomes such as NHDD.
PMID: 30870054 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse - March 13, 2019 Category: Addiction Authors: Kirouac M, Kruger E, Wilson AD, Hallgren KA, Witkiewitz K Tags: Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse Source Type: research