The powerful placebo: Doubting the doubters

Advances in Mind-Body Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 298-307

  Greene, P J ^a   Wayne, P M ^a   Kerr, C E ^a   Weiger, W A ^a   Jacobson, E ^a   Goldman, P ^a   Kaptchuk, T J ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE; HYPNOTIC SEDATIVE AGENT; KETOROLAC; NALOXONE; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; NARCOTIC ANTAGONIST; OPIATE ANTAGONIST; PLACEBO; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ASTHMA; CANCER PAIN; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PAIN;

CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIALS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS; PLACEBO EFFECT; PLACEBOS; PUBLICATION BIAS; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 0035176835     PISSN: 07419783     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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