And yes, that basically leaves the choice of treatment vs. no-treatment, but that IS a decision.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dirty Little Secret About Patients as Partners in Health Care] Reference

In cases where individual differences among samples or subjects may affect the outcome, or where the causal processes in question are probabilistic rather than deterministic, experimentation requires treating populations rather than individuals and assuring randomization of subjects across "treatment" and "no-treatment" groups.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-06-01] Reference

So where were we to find our placebo data and no-treatment data?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference

Many studies have been conducted where placebo treatments have been compared to no-treatment controls.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference

Wenger continued to advise and assist the Tuskegee Study when it turned into a long term, no-treatment observational study.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference

When it comes to children's welfare, we cannot randomly decide who receives help, versus those in a no-treatment control group.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

The final height of boys in the no-treatment group averaged 5 feet 5 inches, while those in the higher-dose group reached a height of 5 feet 7 inches.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference

The girls in the no-treatment group got to an average height of 4 feet 11 inches, while those in the higher-dose group reached nearly 5 feet 2 inches.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference

And the patients got better, compared to controls, but even the abstract doesn't tell us if the control group is a face-to-face therapy cohort or a no-treatment group.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shrink Rap] Reference

"Fifty-nine percent of our patients who were taking the placebo reported adequate relief, compared to people on the no-treatment control - 35 percent," says study author.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News] Reference

Patients enter a 4-week run-in no-treatment observation period to confirm severity and stability of voiding symptoms based on the International Prostate Symptom Score (IPSS).    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News from SYS-CON ITALIA] Reference

A no-treatment or waiting list control group is often recommended in order to reduce the likelihood of a type II (false negative) error when an intervention is expected to produce small effects.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of Medical Internet Research] Reference

We confirmed that pain reduction can be accomplished without a significant risk of bone loss, and as you know, this trial involved also a six-month no-treatment phase after the treatment period, and we still have women involved in this part of the trial.    From Wordnik.com.  [pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator] Reference

They acknowledged some limitations of their analysis, including the strong reliance on studies that assessed a single group of patients pre - and post-treatment, the variation among control groups, some of which may be considered alternate treatments and not true no-treatment conditions, confounding of treatments by type of injury, age, and recovery level, and the exclusion of some functional treatment outcomes from the included studies.    From Wordnik.com.  [MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for physicians] Reference

"The no-treatment treatment," Jakes said.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Key to Rebecca]