Perception and practice of placebo use among physicians in Mangalore
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
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When and why placebo-prescribing is acceptable and unacceptable: a focus group study of patients' views. [PDF]
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
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Teoría de la complejidad en la atención del paciente con dolor musculoesquelético
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
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Placebos and Medical Education
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Amir Raz, Daniella Guindi
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When a placebo is not a ‘placebo’: a placebo effect on postprandial glycaemia [PDF]
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 ...
John L, Sievenpiper +3 more
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Prescribing placebos ethically: the appeal of negatively informed consent [PDF]
Kihlbom has recently argued that a system of seeking negatively informed consent might be preferable in some cases to the ubiquitous informed consent model. Although this theory is perhaps not powerful enough to supplant informed consent in most settings,
Shaw, D.M.
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Are Sham Acupuncture Interventions More Effective than (Other) Placebos? A Re-Analysis of Data from the Cochrane Review on Placebo Effects [PDF]
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 +7 more
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Background The issue of unblinded outcome-assessors and patients has repeatedly been stressed as a flaw in allegedly double-blind antidepressant trials. Unblinding bias can for example result from a drug‘s marked side effects.
Lisa Holper, Michael P. Hengartner
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A discursive exploration of public perspectives on placebos and their effects
There is increasing evidence that placebos could be effective in clinical practice. However, knowledge of public perspectives on placebos is underdeveloped.
Doug I Hardman +4 more
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Why do open-label placebos work? A randomized controlled trial of an open-label placebo induction with and without extended information about the placebo effect in allergic rhinitis. [PDF]
Several studies demonstrated that placebo treatment may have a significant impact on many different symptoms. While in the traditional view concealment of the placebo is essential, recent studies report intriguing evidence that placebos may work even ...
Michael Schaefer +2 more
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