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Is It Always Unethical to Use a Placebo in a Clinical Trial?

Background to the debate: Placebos are used in trials to conceal whether a treatment is being given or not and hence to control for the psychosomatic effects of offering treatment. Placebo-controlled trials are controversial. Critics of such trials argue that if a proven effective therapy exists, a...

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Autores principales: Stang, Andreas, Hense, Hans-Werner, Jöckel, Karl-Heinz, Turner, Erick H, Tramèr, Martin R
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1069666/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15783259
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020072