Invasive 'placebo' controls: Have we lost sight of whom we are blinding?

Paediatric Anaesthesia

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1089-1091

  Fahy, Cormac ^a   Costi, David ^a   Cyna, Allan ^a  

^a WOMEN S AND CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FENTANYL; MORPHINE; PLACEBO;

EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; NERVE BLOCK; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRANSVERSUS ABDOMINIS PLANE BLOCK;

ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; ANESTHESIA, SPINAL; CHILD; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ETHICS, RESEARCH; HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; HUMANS; NERVE BLOCK; PLACEBOS; PUBLISHING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RISK; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD;

EID: 80053545231     PISSN: 11555645     EISSN: 14609592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9592.2011.03650.x     Document Type: Review

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