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Should we reconsider the routine use of placebo controls in clinical research?

BACKGROUND: Modern clinical-research practice favors placebo controls over usual-care controls whenever a credible placebo exists. An unrecognized consequence of this preference is that clinicians are more limited in their ability to provide the benefits of the non-specific healing effects of placeb...

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Autores principales: Avins, Andrew L, Cherkin, Daniel C, Sherman, Karen J, Goldberg, Harley, Pressman, Alice
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3404895/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22540350
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-13-44