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Revisiting the Sham: Is It all Smoke and Mirrors?

The misuse of sham controls in examining the efficacy or effectiveness of Complementary and Alternative Medicine has created numerous problems. The theoretical justification for incorporating a sham is questionable. The sham does not improve our control of bias and leads to relativistic data that, i...

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Autores principales: Horn, Brandon, Balk, Judith, Gold, Jeffrey I.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3137704/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21785635
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ecam/neq074