ArticlePhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2011
Reframing placebo in research and practice.
Article in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02681484 (Speech Guided Breathing), which is not on this map. Cited by 14 papers.
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Speech Guided Breathing: a Modality to Influence Cardiovascular Regulation and Health Perception in Hypertensive Patients?
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 45 citations in OpenAlex.
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Abstract
The terms 'placebo' and 'placebo effects' cause confusion among patients, practitioners and scientists. This confusion results in both the adoption of practices that have no evidence of specificity yet considerable risk (such as surgery for low back pain) or the elimination of clinical practices proven to facilitate healing because they are not 'better than placebo' (such as acupuncture for low back pain). In this article, I discuss these issues and introduce the concept of optimal healing environment as a framework for disentangling what is useful from placebo research for adopting into clinical practice in a manner that is ethical and evidence-based.
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