Dr.McKenzie has developed a new cognitive therapy for the treatment of severe depression.Over the years, he found it to be highly effective on many inpatients in the hospital where he works.However, when his colleague agreed to conduct an outcome assessment of Dr.McKenzie's treatment in a highly ethnically diverse community, she found the effectiveness of the treatment to be highly variable according to ethnicity and whether patients are inpatients or outpatients.According to the APA clinical practice guidelines, what would this procedure be considered low in?

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The outcome assessment conducted by Dr. McKenzie's colleague found that the effectiveness of the treatment varied according to ethnicity and whether patients were inpatients or outpatients. This suggests that the treatment may not be generalizable to all populations and settings, which is a limitation in external validity or generalizability.

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