Letter to the editor: Response to Covey

Authors

Brian Hitsman, Brown Medical School/The Miriam Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island
Bonnie Spring, University of Illinois at Chicago
Belinda Borrelli, Brown Medical School/The Miriam Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island
Dennis E. McChargue, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Raymond Niaura, Brown Medical School/The Miriam Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island

Date of this Version

August 2004

Comments

Published in Nicotine & Tobacco Research Volume 6, Number 4 (August 2004) 747–749. Copyright 2004 Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco. Used by permission.

Abstract

Dr. Covey asserts that our meta-analysis of the association between history of major depression and smoking treatment outcome (Hitsman, Borrelli, McChargue, Spring, & Niaura, 2003) was flawed because we did not limit our analysis to participants randomized to placebo or alternative least intensive treatment condition.