Placebo in nonpharmacological randomized trials

Randomized Clinical Trials of Nonpharmacological Treatments

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 11-25

  Hróbjartsson, Asbjørn ^a   Miller, Franklin G ^b  

^a Nordic Cochrane Centre   (Denmark)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

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