The use of placebo interventions in medical practice - A national questionnaire survey of Danish clinicians

Evaluation and the Health Professions

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 153-165

  Hróbjartsson, Asbjørn ^a   Norup, Michael ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Medical ethics; Patient care methods; Placebo effect; Placebos therapeutic use; Professionalpatient relations; Questionnaires

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PLACEBO;

CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENMARK; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HOSPITAL PHYSICIAN; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZATION; REVIEW; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DENMARK; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFECTION; MALE; PLACEBO EFFECT; PLACEBOS; PRESCRIPTIONS, DRUG; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 0038249063     PISSN: 01632787     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0163278703026002002     Document Type: Review

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