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Noble Humbug? Hard and soft laws on clinical placebo use [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology
Despite the widespread historical and contemporary use of placebos in medicine, legal regulations addressing their administration remain limited in many countries.
Mélina Richard, Mélina Richard, Manuela Ganz, Lena Dominique Hornstein, Bohdan Stehlik, Mélanie Levy, Charlotte R. Blease, Marco Annoni, Bernice S. Elger, Jens Gaab   +9 more
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Placebos as a Source of Agency: Evidence and Implications

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2019
Bioethical discussions surrounding the use of placebos in clinical practice have long revolved around the moral permissibility of deceiving a patient if it is likely to benefit them.
Phoebe Friesen
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Open-label placebos reduce weight in obesity: a randomized controlled trial [PDF]

Scientific Reports
Obesity is a major public health problem worldwide. Different approaches are known to face this problem, for example, dieting, surgery, or drug interventions. It has also been shown that placebos may help to reduce weight and hunger feelings, but the use
Michael Schaefer, Anja Kühnel, Sören Enge   +2 more
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Effects of placebos without deception compared with no treatment: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 2017
James E G Charlesworth, Igho J Onakpoya, Nia Roberts   +2 more
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The challenges of control groups, placebos and blinding in clinical trials of dietary interventions

Proceedings of the Nutrition Society, 2017
Heidi M Staudacher, Peter M Irving, Kevin Whelan   +2 more
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Placebo [PDF]

The Lancet, 2005
Abstract Placebo, used here to mean an inert treatment given as if it was a real treatment, means lots of different things to different people. The structure of the article is that it begins by talking about the technical use of placebos in clinical trials, and the extent of the placebo response, then about the mechanism—“How does the ...
H J, McQuay, R A, Moore
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Are open‐Label Placebos Ethical? Informed Consent and Ethical Equivocations

Bioethics, 2016
Charlotte R Blease, Luana Colloca
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Imaginary pills and open-label placebos can reduce test anxiety by means of placebo mechanisms

Scientific Reports, 2023
Placebos have been shown to be beneficial for various conditions even if administered with full transparency. Hence, so-called open-label placebos (OLPs) offer a new way to harness placebo effects ethically.
Sarah Buergler, Dilan Sezer, Niels Bagge, I. Kirsch, Cosima Locher, Cláudia Carvalho, J. Gaab   +6 more
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A randomized controlled trial of effects of open-label placebo compared to double-blind placebo and treatment-as-usual on symptoms of allergic rhinitis

Scientific Reports, 2023
Placebo effects are known for numerous clinical symptoms. Until recently, deception of placebos was thought to be essential for placebo effects, but intriguing new studies suggest that even placebos without concealment (open-label placebos) may help ...
Michael Schaefer, Kurt Zimmermann, Paul Enck   +2 more
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Placebo use in the United kingdom: results from a national survey of primary care practitioners. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
Surveys in various countries suggest 17% to 80% of doctors prescribe 'placebos' in routine practice, but prevalence of placebo use in UK primary care is unknown.We administered a web-based questionnaire to a representative sample of UK general ...
Jeremy Howick, Felicity L Bishop, Carl Heneghan, Jane Wolstenholme, Sarah Stevens, F D Richard Hobbs, George Lewith   +6 more
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