Interpreting the Outcomes of Automated Internet-Based Randomized Trials: Example of an International Smoking Cessation Study

Yan Leykin   ¹ , PhD ;   Adrian Aguilera   ² , PhD ;   Leandro D Torres   ^{1, 3} , PhD ;   Eliseo J Pérez-Stable   ^{4, 5} , MD ;   Ricardo F Muñoz   ^{1, 3} , PhD

¹ Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States

² School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States

³ San Francisco General Hospital, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States

⁴ Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States

⁵ Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States