ArticleThe Journal of medicine and philosophy2011
Understanding and harnessing placebo effects: clearing away the underbrush.
Article in The Journal of medicine and philosophy, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- The placebo effect in overactive bladder syndrome.Nature reviews. Urology · 2011Pooled it
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- [Placebos and placeboids in clinical practice: conceptual and ethical considerations].Der Nervenarzt · 2020Review
- Significance of Participants' Expectations in Managing the Placebo Effect in Antidepressant Research.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2019Article
- Placebo hypoalgesic effects in pain: Potential applications in dental and orofacial pain management.Seminars in orthodontics · 2018Article
- Use of Placebo in Supplementation Studies-Vitamin D Research Illustrates an Ethical Quandary.Nutrients · 2018Review
- The Placebo Phenomenon: A Narrow Focus on Psychological Models.Perspectives in biology and medicine · 2018Article
- A gentle ethical defence of homeopathy.Journal of bioethical inquiry · 2015Article
- The potential benefit of the placebo effect in sham-controlled trials: implications for risk-benefit assessments and informed consent.Journal of medical ethics · 2013Article
- The placebo phenomenon and medical ethics: rethinking the relationship between informed consent and risk-benefit assessment.Theoretical medicine and bioethics · 2011Article
- Harnessing the placebo effect: the need for translational research.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2011Review
- A discursive exploration of public perspectives on placebos and their effects.Health psychology openArticle
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Abstract
Despite strong growth in scientific investigation of the placebo effect, understanding of this phenomenon remains deeply confused. We investigate critically seven common conceptual distinctions that impede clear understanding of the placebo effect: (1) verum/placebo, (2) active/inactive, (3) signal/noise, (4) specific/nonspecific, (5) objective/subjective, (6) disease/illness, and (7) intervention/context. We argue that some of these should be eliminated entirely, whereas others must be used with caution to avoid bias. Clearing away the conceptual underbrush is needed to lay down a path to understanding and harnessing placebo effects in clinical medicine.
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