Randomized single-case experimental designs in healthcare research: What, why, and how?

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Health problems are often idiosyncratic in nature and therefore require individualized diagnosis and treatment. In this paper, we show how single-case experimental designs (SCEDs) can meet the requirement to find and evaluate individually tailored treatments. We give a basic introduction to the methodology of SCEDs and provide an overview of the available design options. For each design, we show how an element of randomization can be incorporated to increase the internal and statistical conclusion validity and how the obtained data can be analyzed using visual tools, effect size measures, and randomization inference. We illustrate each design and data analysis technique using applied data sets from the healthcare literature.

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Tanious, R., & Onghena, P. (2019). Randomized single-case experimental designs in healthcare research: What, why, and how? Healthcare (Switzerland), 7(4). https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare7040143

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