The placebo phenomenon: Implications for the ethics of shared decision-making

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 739-742

  Brody, Howard ^a   Colloca, Luana ^b   Miller, Franklin G ^b  

^a Institute for the Medical Humanities   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO;

ACUPUNCTURE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; DECISION MAKING; ETHICS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOW BACK PAIN; MASSAGE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATIENT AUTONOMY; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PATIENT INFORMATION; PLACEBO EFFECT; REVIEW; SHARED DECISION MAKING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; WELLBEING;

DECISION MAKING; ETHICS, MEDICAL; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PLACEBO EFFECT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84862697930     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-011-1977-1     Document Type: Review

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