Expectancy in real and sham electroacupuncture: Does believing make it so?

Journal of the National Cancer Institute - Monographs

Volumn 2014, Issue 50, 2014, Pages 302-307

  Bauml, Joshua ^a,b,c   Xie, Sharon X ^a,d   Farrar, John T ^a,c,d   Bowman, Marjorie A ^b,e   Li, Susan Q ^a   Bruner, Deborah ^f   DeMichele, Angela ^a,b,c,d   Mao, Jun J ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANASTROZOLE; EXEMESTANE; LETROZOLE; AROMATASE INHIBITOR; PLACEBO;

ACUPUNCTURE EXPECTANCY SCALE; ACUPUNCTURE NEEDLE; ADULT; AGED; ANALGESIA; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BRIEF PAIN INVENTORY; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER SURVIVOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL GLOBAL IMPRESSION SCALE; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; EXPECTATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SHAM PROCEDURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; EMOTION; MIDDLE AGED; PLACEBO EFFECT; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; AROMATASE INHIBITORS; ARTHRALGIA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PLACEBO EFFECT; PLACEBOS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84918556527     PISSN: 10526773     EISSN: 17456614     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1093/jncimonographs/lgu029     Document Type: Article

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