Placebo-Controlled Trials in Surgery

Medicine (United States)

Volumn 95, Issue 17, 2016, Pages

  Probst, Pascal ^a   Grummich, Kathrin ^a   Harnoss, Julian C ^a   Hüttner, Felix J ^a   Jensen, Katrin ^a   Braun, Silvia ^a   Kieser, Meinhard ^a   Ulrich, Alexis ^a   Büchler, Markus W ^a   Diener, Markus K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROSCOPIC DEBRIDEMENT; EAR NOSE THROAT SURGERY; EMBASE; FETAL TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HUMAN; INCISION; INTERNAL VALIDITY; MEDLINE; META ANALYSIS; NEUROSURGERY; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; RHEUMATOLOGY; SUBURETHRAL SLING; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; ETHICS; PLACEBO EFFECT; SURGERY;

PATIENT SAFETY; PLACEBO EFFECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE;

EID: 84978245830     PISSN: 00257974     EISSN: 15365964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MD.0000000000003516     Document Type: Review

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