More mice or a better mouse trap? Reflections on primary outcome indices in illicit drug dependence treatment research.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

1. Effect of a primary care based brief intervention trial among risky drug users on health-related quality of life.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2014
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2. How to measure the effectiveness of recovery community centers: insights gained from a nationwide survey of directors of RCCs.Frontiers in public health · 2025
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3. Examining Longitudinal Stimulant Use and Treatment Attendance as Parallel Outcomes in Two Contingency Management Randomized Clinical Trials.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2016
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4. Recommendations for the Design and Analysis of Treatment Trials for Alcohol Use Disorders.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2015
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Corrections and comments

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  'Nothing is more practical than a good theory': outcome measures in addictions treatment research.2012
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  How to measure outcome in clinical trials of substance abuse treatment.2012
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  The mountain roared and brought forth a mouse*: comments on the results of an expert panel on standardization of drug dependence treatment trial outcome variables.2012

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Funding

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Abstract

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