%0 Journal Article
%T A Statistical Perspective on the Design of Drug-Court Studies
%J Evaluation review
%D 2009
%A Bird, S. M.
%A Merrall, E. L. C.
%V 33
%N 3
%P 257-280
%X Recent meta-analyses of drug-court studies recognized the poor methodological quality of the evaluations, with only a few being randomized. This article critiques the design of the randomized studies from a statistical perspective. Learning points are identified for future drug-court studies and are applicable to evaluations both of other specialist courts and of court-based interventions more generally. The specific issues covered are randomization, describing the intervention, and baseline characteristics; study outcomes, and sample size calculations; in-program and postprogram behavior, analysis plan, and presentation of results.<p />
%G 
%I SAGE Publishing
%@ 0193-841X
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0193841X08330819