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Objective response rate of placebo in randomized controlled trials of anticancer medicinesResearch in context

open access: yesEClinicalMedicine, 2023
Summary: Background: Spontaneous regression of advanced solid tumors is infrequent but may occur. Quantifying response rates from placebo in cancer drug trials may provide important information for physicians, patients, and regulators.
Arushi Sachdev   +4 more
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Placebo Effects in Psychotherapy: A Framework

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychiatry, 2019
The issue of placebo response and the extent of its effect on psychotherapy is complex for two specific reasons: i) Current standards for drug trials, e.g., true placebo interventions, double-blinding, cannot be applied to most psychotherapy techniques ...
Paul Enck, Stephan Zipfel
doaj   +1 more source

Influence on study outcomes of an inpatient study by the behavior of the study staff (PINgPOng): study protocol for a randomized clinical trial

open access: yesTrials, 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   +9 more
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Pharmacogenomics and the Placebo Response [PDF]

open access: yesACS Chemical Neuroscience, 2018
There is perhaps no more important time in the history of placebos to consider their role in clinical trials and in medicine. Increasingly well-designed pharmaceutical and academic clinical trials testing promising and established drug and surgical interventions have failed to "beat" the placebo response.
Kathryn T, Hall   +2 more
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Comparison of indirect treatment methods in migraine prevention to address differences in mode of administration

open access: yesJournal of Comparative Effectiveness Research, 2023
Aim: Indirect treatment comparisons (ITCs) are anchored on a placebo comparator, and the placebo response may vary according to drug administration route.
Howard Thom   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Placebo Economics: A Systematic Review About the Economic Potential of Utilizing the Placebo Effect

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychiatry, 2019
Background: Recent research shows that placebo mechanisms can be utilized in ethical and legal ways such as in open-label conditions, when patients know that they receive placebos, and through psychological interventions aiming to optimize patients ...
Jens Hamberger   +6 more
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Placebo response in migraine [PDF]

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 2010
Sir I am currently in the process of revising the Guidelines for Drug Trials in Migraine of The International Headache Society. While browsing the literature for information on the placebo response in migraine randomised clinical trials (RCTs), I read with interest the extensive meta-analysis on this subject published by Macedo et al.
openaire   +3 more sources

Placebo response in depression

open access: yesDialogues in Clinical Neuroscience, 2002
With its naturally fluctuating course, depression is a highly placebo-responsive condition: mean placebo response rates in antidepressant clinical trials are 30% to 40%. We review the history and terminology of placebo and the proposed mechanisms underlying the placebo response, including the physician-patient relationship and biological, sociocultural,
Shamsah B, Sonawalla   +1 more
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Twenty years after ‘Listening to Prozac but hearing placebo’. Do we hear placebo even louder?

open access: yesHealth Psychology Report, 2019
An active placebo is a substance that produces side effects similar to an active ingredient while not producing the same intended therapeutic effect. The aim of this study is to review the literature on the hypothesis of the active placebo response as a ...
Wojciech Oronowicz-Jaśkowiak   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Placebo and the law of identification

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychiatry
Thousands of essays and studies have been published on placebo and nocebo. Yet, despite this plethora of information, we are not much closer to a comprehensive understanding of the fundamental mechanism producing placebo and nocebo effects than we were ...
Steve F. Bierman   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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