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Updating UK clinical guidelines to incorporate the placebo effect in peri-operative care: challenges and opportunities [PDF]

Frontiers in Pain Research
Emma Gregory
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LISTENING TO THE PLACEBO, OR HOW TO FIND OUT WHY TREATMENTS WORK [PDF]

Papeles del Psicólogo, 2020
The placebo effect is powerful and has been proved effective in multiple studies, competing even with well-established treatments. It is absolutely not an unspecific or inert effect.
Miguel A. Vallejo Pareja, Laura Vallejo-Slocker   +1 more
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To sense or dissent

Global Rheumatology, 2023
Interested in the therapeutic response that I usually predict in my chronically ill patients, I bring to the fore a phenomenon that is enigmatic in itself: the placebo effect.
Alberto Palacios-Boix
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Placebo response and effect in randomized clinical trials: meta-research with focus on contextual effects

Trials, 2021
Background Contextual effects (i.e., placebo response) refer to all health changes resulting from administering an apparently inactive treatment. In a randomized clinical trial (RCT), the overall treatment effect (i.e., the post-treatment effect in the ...
Sigurlaug H. Hafliðadóttir, Carsten B. Juhl, Sabrina M. Nielsen, Marius Henriksen, Ian A. Harris, Henning Bliddal, Robin Christensen   +6 more
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Placebo prescription pattern among doctors of tertiary care institutions in Puducherry: A questionnaire-based study

National Journal of Physiology, Pharmacy and Pharmacology, 2021
Background: Physicians administer placebo with the intention that it might relieve distress to their patients. Aims and Objectives: This study aims to analyze the attitude and placebo prescribing practices and also to estimate the extent of placebo ...
B Maharani, A Lourdu Jafrin, Yogesh Bahurupi, G Sivagnanam   +3 more
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European Headache Federation recommendations for placebo and nocebo terminology

The Journal of Headache and Pain, 2020
Background and aim Despite recent publications, practitioners remain unfamiliar with the current terminology related to the placebo and nocebo phenomena observed in clinical trials and practice, nor with the factors that modulate them.
Dimos D. Mitsikostas, Charlotte Blease, Elisa Carlino, Luana Colloca, Andrew L. Geers, Jeremy Howick, Andrea W. M. Evers, Magne A. Flaten, John M. Kelley, Irving Kirsch, Regine Klinger, Antoinette MaassenVanDenBrink, Daniel E. Moerman, Petros P. Sfikakis, Lene Vase, Tor D. Wager, Fabrizio Benedetti, on behalf of the European Headache Federation   +17 more
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Influence on study outcomes of an inpatient study by the behavior of the study staff (PINgPOng): study protocol for a randomized clinical trial

Trials, 2022
Background The placebo effect as the symptom improvement following inert treatments is a fixed component of RCTs to differentiate between specific effects of the tested pharmacological substance from other unspecific effects.
Martin Coenen, Ulrike Bingel, Matthias Zunhammer, Maria Soledad Berdaguer, Christine Fuhrmann, Rolf Fimmers, Jens Rengelshausen, Gunther Hartmann, Manfred Schedlowski, Christoph Coch   +9 more
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The placebo response rate and nocebo events in obesity pharmacological trials. A systematic review and meta-analysis

EClinicalMedicine, 2022
Summary: Background: There is a growing number of trials examining the effectiveness of pharmacotherapies for obesity, however, little is known about placebo and nocebo effect in these trials. Hence, we sought to examine the effect of placebo in obesity
Yip Han Chin, Cheng Han Ng, Nicholas WS Chew, Gwyneth Kong, Wen Hui Lim, Darren Jun Hao Tan, Kai En Chan, Ansel Tang, Daniel Q Huang, Mark Y Chan, Gemma Figtree, Jiong-Wei Wang, Asim Shabbir, Chin Meng Khoo, Vincent Wai-Sun Wong, Dan Yock Young, Mohammad Shadab Siddiqui, Mazen Noureddin, Arun Sanyal, David E. Cummings, Nicholas Syn, Mark Dhinesh Muthiah   +21 more
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The ethics of placebos

South African Family Practice, 2013
The word “placebo”, first used during funeral ceremonies in the 14th century, is derived from old Latin and means “I shall please”. At the time, it was practice among Roman Catholics to hire professional mourners to wail vespers for the dead.
Donna Knapp van Bogaert, Gboyega A. Ogunbanjo   +1 more
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The health economic potential of harnessing placebos in treatment of ADHD

European Psychiatry, 2021
Introduction Placebo research investigated the underlying mechanisms of placebo effects, but they are rarely used to optimize treatments. Ethical and legal concerns have been raised, but research demonstrated that placebo mechanisms can be used without
J. Hamberger, K. Meissner, T. Hinterberger, T. Loew   +3 more
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