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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]
, 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
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Super Placebos: A Feasibility Study Combining Contextual Factors to Promote Placebo Effects
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2020 Background: Ample evidence demonstrates that placebo effects are modulated by contextual factors. Few interventions, however, attempt to combine a broad range of these factors.
Jay A. Olson +3 more
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British Journal of Health Psychology, 2020 OBJECTIVE To examine how primary care physicians define placebo concepts, use placebos in clinical practice, and view open-label placebos (OLPs). DESIGN Semi-structured focus groups that were audio-recorded and content-coded. METHODS Two focus groups
Michael H Bernstein +8 more
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BMC Psychiatry, 2020 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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Strengthening the ethical assessment of placebo-controlled surgical trials : three proposals [PDF]
, 2014 Peer reviewedPublisher ...
Campbell, Marion K +3 more
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Unethical informed consent caused by overlooking poorly measured nocebo effects [PDF]
, 2020 Unlike its friendly cousin the placebo effect, the nocebo effect (the effect of expecting a negative outcome) has been almost ignored. Epistemic and ethical confusions related to its existence have gone all but unnoticed.
Howick, Jeremy
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Prescribing placebos ethically: the appeal of negatively informed consent [PDF]
, 2009 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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The use of pure and impure placebo interventions in primary care - a qualitative approach
BMC Family Practice, 2011 Background Placebos play an important role in clinical trials and several surveys have shown that they are also common in daily practice. Previous research focused primarily on the frequency of placebo use in outpatient care.
Senn Oliver +4 more
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Placebo use in the United kingdom: results from a national survey of primary care practitioners.
PLoS ONE, 2013 ObjectivesSurveys 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.MethodsWe administered a web-based questionnaire to a representative sample of UK ...
Jeremy Howick +6 more
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Placebo Trends across the Border: US versus Canada. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Physicians around the world report to using placebos in a variety of situations and with varying degrees of frequency. Inconsistent methodologies, however, complicate interpretation and prevent direct comparisons across studies.
Cory S Harris +2 more
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