Is it the case that SMARTs never include a reference group or “usual care treatment”?

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Is it the case that SMARTs never include a reference group or “usual care treatment”?

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Not necessarily. Quite often, actually, one of the embedded AIs in a SMART represents an explicitly operationalized version of treatment as usual/control intervention or adaptive intervention.

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