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Placebo Effect [PDF]

The Scientific World Journal, 2000
Nature and Science ran completely different news line-ups this week. But their lead stories agreed on one thing: patients matter. Nature led with a story about a group of patients who will share in a patent after giving blood and tissue samples to ...
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Causal diagrams, the placebo effect, and the expectation effect

International Journal of General Medicine, 2013
Eyal Shahar,1 Doron J Shahar2 1Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, 2Department of Mathematics, College of Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA Abstract: Using causal diagrams, a formal ...
Shahar E, Shahar DJ
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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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Placebo effect of an inert gel on experimentally induced leg muscle pain. [PDF]

, 2010
Purpose: This study examined the therapeutic effects of an inert placebo gel on experimentally induced muscle pain in a sports therapy setting. It aimed to investigate the degree to which conditioned analgesia, coupled with an expectation of intervention,
Coleman, Damian A, Beedie, C., Leach, G., Foad, A., Hopker, James G.   +4 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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