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Effects of open-label placebos in clinical trials: a systematic review and meta-analysis

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2021
Open-label placebos (OLPs) are placebos without deception in the sense that patients know that they are receiving a placebo. The objective of our study is to systematically review and analyze the effect of OLPs in comparison to no treatment in clinical ...
Melina von Wernsdorff   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Placebos in clinical care: a suggestion beyond the evidence

open access: yesMedical Journal of Australia, 2021
The clinical use of placebos is often justified by pointing to their important treatment effects. Proponents have also argued that the placebo effect can be amplified by manipulating the physical appearance of the pill,2 that placebo effects vary across ...
C. Maher   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Placebo [PDF]

open access: yesThe 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
openaire   +4 more sources

Perception and practice of placebo use among physicians in Mangalore

open access: yesJournal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2020
Background: Placebo use falls under two contexts: clinical care and research. In today's pharmacological era where treatment is available for almost all illnesses, there exists a lot of questions about the perceived efficacy and usage of placebos.
Ravinder Singh Aujla   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Teoría de la complejidad en la atención del paciente con dolor musculoesquelético

open access: yesBiomédica: revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud, 2022
Los sistemas no lineales no son susceptibles de ser investigados con métodos reduccionistas. En este sentido, la teoría de la complejidad ofrece un enfoque alternativo para cuantificar la importancia de los factores contextuales en el paciente con dolor ...
Mauro Andreu   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

When and why placebo-prescribing is acceptable and unacceptable: a focus group study of patients' views. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2014
Surveys of doctors suggest that they use placebos and placebo effects clinically to help patients. However, patients' views are not well-understood.
Felicity L Bishop   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Genomic Effects Associated With Response to Placebo Treatment in a Randomized Trial of Irritable Bowel Syndrome

open access: yesFrontiers in Pain Research, 2022
Background and Aims: Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), a functional pain disorder of gut-brain interactions, is characterized by a high placebo response in randomized clinical trials (RCTs).
Rui-Sheng Wang   +21 more
doaj   +1 more source

Open-label placebos for menopausal hot flushes: a randomized controlled trial

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2020
This study investigated the efficacy of an open-label placebo (OLP) treatment for menopausal hot flushes. Women with at least five moderate or severe hot flushes per day were allocated to receive four weeks of OLP for twice a day or no-treatment ...
Yiqi Pan   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Are Sham Acupuncture Interventions More Effective than (Other) Placebos? A Re-Analysis of Data from the Cochrane Review on Placebo Effects [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Background and Objective: A recent Cochrane review on placebo interventions for all kinds of conditions found that `physical placebos' (which included sham acupuncture) were associated with larger effects over no-treatment control groups than ...
Linde, Klaus   +2 more
core   +1 more source

When a placebo is not a ‘placebo’: a placebo effect on postprandial glycaemia [PDF]

open access: yesBritish Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 2007
What is already known about this subject • Although placebo effects have been shown on subjective continuous variables such as pain, placebo effects on objective continuous variables remain uncertain.• The present, pilot, follow‐up investigation represents the first to assess a placebo effect on the objective continuous measurement of acute ...
Vladimir Vuksan   +3 more
openaire   +3 more sources

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