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Preoperative optimization of patient expectations improves long-term outcome in heart surgery patients: results of the randomized controlled PSY-HEART trial

BACKGROUND: Placebo effects contribute substantially to outcome in most fields of medicine. While clinical trials typically try to control or minimize these effects, the potential of placebo mechanisms to improve outcome is rarely used. Patient expectations about treatment efficacy and outcome are m...

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Autores principales: Rief, Winfried, Shedden-Mora, Meike C., Laferton, Johannes A. C., Auer, Charlotte, Petrie, Keith J., Salzmann, Stefan, Schedlowski, Manfred, Moosdorf, Rainer
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5223324/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28069021
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-016-0767-3