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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 +6 more
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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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Teoría de la complejidad en la atención del paciente con dolor musculoesquelético
Biomédica: 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
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Placebos in clinical care: a suggestion beyond the evidence
Medical 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
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Perception and practice of placebo use among physicians in Mangalore
Journal 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
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When and why placebo-prescribing is acceptable and unacceptable: a focus group study of patients' views. [PDF]
PLoS 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
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Open-label placebos for menopausal hot flushes: a randomized controlled trial
Scientific 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
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Frontiers 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
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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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When a placebo is not a ‘placebo’: a placebo effect on postprandial glycaemia [PDF]
British 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
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