The Importance of Placebo Effects in Pain Treatment and Research

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 271, Issue 20, 1994, Pages 1609-1614

  Turner, Judith A ^a   Deyo, Richard A ^a   Loeser, John D ^a   Von Korff, Michael ^a   Fordyce, Wilbert E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; ANTILIPEMIC AGENT; BRONCHODILATING AGENT; ISOTONIC SOLUTION; LEVAMISOLE; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; NARCOTIC ANTAGONIST; ORGANIC SOLVENT; PLACEBO; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANALGESIA; ANXIETY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EXPECTATION; HUMAN; LEARNING; LOW BACK PAIN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MODEL; PAIN; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; SPINE SURGERY; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 0028242319     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1994.03510440069036     Document Type: Article

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