Placebo interventions, placebo effects and clinical practice

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 366, Issue 1572, 2011, Pages 1905-1912

  Linde, Klaus ^a   Fässler, Margrit ^a,b   Meissner, Karin ^a,c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Clinical practice; Ethics; Placebo; Placebo effects; Randomized controlled trials

Indexed keywords

DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; DRUG; ETHICS; LABORATORY METHOD; NEUROLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL MEDICINE; ETHICS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PLACEBO EFFECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC);

CLINICAL MEDICINE; HUMANS; PLACEBO EFFECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 79956367901     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0383     Document Type: Article

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