Lessons to be learned from placebo groups in clinical trials

Pain

Volumn 152, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1693-1694

  Rief, Winfried ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO;

CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; FIBROMYALGIA; MEDICAL RESEARCH; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NOTE; PLACEBO EFFECT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 79960438934     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: 18726623     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2011.03.007     Document Type: Editorial

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