AMA Publishing Group: Quality Metrics Topic Collection http://pubs.jamanetwork.com/ en-us Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:47:54 GMT Silverchair editor@pubs.jamanetwork.com webmaster@pubs.jamanetwork.com The Effect of Treatment History on Therapeutic Outcome: An Experimental Approach http://pubs.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleID=1697787 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT Kessner S, Wiech K, Forkmann K, et al. <span class="paragraphSection">Therapeutic context can critically determine treatment outcome. Prior experience with a treatment is an important contextual factor that has been shown to modulate treatment efficacy. To date, this influence of prior treatment experience has been studied only within the same treatment approach. However, in clinical practice, treatments are often changed, particularly in case of failure. The aim of this study was therefore to investigate whether the effects of treatment history carry over from one treatment approach to another.</span> 1 2 10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.6705 http://pubs.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleID=1697787