Prescribing "placebo treatments": Results of national survey of US internists and rheumatologists

BMJ

Volumn 337, Issue 7678, 2008, Pages 1097-1100

  Tilburt, Jon C ^a   Emanuel, Ezekiel J ^a   Kaptchuk, Ted J ^b   Curlin, Farr A ^c   Miller, Franklin G ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; PLACEBO; SEDATIVE AGENT; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUGAR; VITAMIN; NON PRESCRIPTION DRUG;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERNAL MEDICINE; MEDICAL ETHICS; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PLACEBO EFFECT; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOLOGY; SELF REPORT; ADULT; AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMMUNICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DRUGS, NON-PRESCRIPTION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; INTERNAL MEDICINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PLACEBOS; RHEUMATOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 56549084016     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.a1938     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. Cabot RC. The use of truth and falsehood in medicine: an experimental study. Am Med 1903;5:344-9.
2. Conference on therapy. The use of placebos in therapy. N Y J Med 1946;17:722-7.
3. Findley F. The placebo and the physician. Med Clin North Am 1953;37:1821-6.
4. Bok S. The ethics of giving placebos. Sci Am 1974;231:17-23.
5. American Medical Association. Placebo use in clinical practice. CEJA Report 2-I-06. www.ama-assn.org/ama1/pub/upload/mm/369/ ceja_recs_2i06.pdf.
6. Goodwin JS, Goodwin JM, Vogel AV. Knowledge and use of placebos by house officers and nurses. Ann Intern Med 1979;91:106-10.
7. Berger JT. Placebo medication use in patient care: a survey of medical interns. West J Med 1999;170:93-6.
8. Sherman R, Hickner J. Academic physicians use placebos in clinical practice and believe in the mind-body connection. J Gen Intern Med 2008;23:7-10.
9. Nitzan U, Lichtenberg P. Questionnaire survey on use of placebo. BMJ 2004;329:944-6.
10. Gray G, Flynn P. A survey of placebo use in a general hospital. Gen Hosp Psychiatry 1981;3:199-203.
11. Thomson RJ, Buchanan WJ. Placebos and general practice: attitudes to, and use of the placebo effect. N Z Med J 1982;95:492-4.
12. Hrobjartsson A, Norup M. The use of placebo interventions in medical practice - a national questionnaire survey of Danish clinicians. Eval Health Prof 2003;26:153-65.