Addressing the "it is just placebo" pitfall in CAM: Methodology of a project to develop patient-reported measures of nonspecific factors in healing

Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 2013, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Greco, Carol M ^a   Glick, Ronald M ^a   Morone, Natalia E ^a   Schneider, Michael J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

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EID: 84893783891     PISSN: 1741427X     EISSN: 17414288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2013/613797     Document Type: Article

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