History of Evidence-Based Practice Reference library
Scott O. Lilienfeld and Candice Basterfield
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the History of Modern Psychology
...were blindfolded and asked which cigarette brand they preferred ( Meldrum, 2000 ). A second randomized blinded controlled trial was carried out by the MRC to evaluate streptomycin for treating pulmonary tuberculosis. The British statistician and epidemiologist Austin Bradford Hill ( 1897–1991 ) is credited with designing the trial. He replaced alternation with randomization to better disguise the allocation schedule from patients and experimenters. Pulmonary tuberculosis patients were assigned to the streptomycin treatment group and a no-treatment...
Organization Development Reference library
W. Warner Burke
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Industrial, Work, and Organizational Psychology
...change does not always involve OD. Three criteria determine whether an organizational change can be considered an effective OD intervention. If the intervention (a) responds to the actual needs for change as experienced by organizational members, (b) involves organizational members in the planning and implementing of the changes, and (c) leads to a change in the organization’s culture, then the change is considered effective ( Burke & Noumair, 2015 ). Not everyone in the field agrees with these criteria, particularly the third one—cultural change....
