The powerful placebo effect: Fact or fiction?

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1311-1318

  Kienle, Gunver S ^a   Kiene, Helmut ^a  

^a Institut fur angewandte Erkenntnistheorie und medizinische Methodologie e V   (Germany)

Author keywords

Placebo; Placebo effect

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO;

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DRUG SCREENING; ERROR; HUMAN; LITERATURE; METHODOLOGY; NEUROSIS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS;

CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIALS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PLACEBO EFFECT; PLACEBOS;

EID: 0031439991     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-4356(97)00203-5     Document Type: Article

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