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Critical review of sham surgery clinical trials: Confounding factors analysis

OBJECTIVE: Sham surgery (placebo surgery) is an intervention that omits the step thought to be therapeutically necessary. In surgical clinical trials, sham surgery serves an analogous purpose to placebo drugs, neutralizing biases such as the placebo effect. A critical review was performed to study t...

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Autores principales: Ciccozzi, Massimo, Menga, Rosa, Ricci, Giovanna, Vitali, Massimiliano Andrea, Angeletti, Silvia, Sirignano, Ascanio, Tambone, Vittoradolfo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5109256/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27872745
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amsu.2016.10.007