What's in placebos: Who knows? Analysis of randomized, controlled trials

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 153, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 532-535

  Golomb, Beatrice A ^a   Erickson, Laura C ^a   Koperski, Sabrina ^a   Sack, Deanna ^a   Enkin, Murray ^b   Howick, Jeremy ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of Oxford ^*  (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ANALYSIS; DRUG FORMULATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 78650161377     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: 15393704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-153-8-201010190-00010     Document Type: Article

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