ArticleZeitschrift fur Psychologie2014
Reevaluating the placebo effect in medical practice.
Article in Zeitschrift fur Psychologie, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 46 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Investigating Knowledge, Attitude, and Beliefs Regarding Placebo Interventions in Clinical Practice: A Comparative Study of Nursing and Medical University Students.Advances in medical education and practice · 2020Article
- Why did the sham-treated EPISOD study subjects do so well? Important lessons for research and practice.Gastrointestinal endoscopy · 2019Article
- Optimizing Placebo and Minimizing Nocebo to Reduce Pain, Catastrophizing, and Opioid Use: A Review of the Science and an Evidence-Informed Clinical Toolkit.International review of neurobiology · 2018Review
- Clinical Use of Placebo Effects in Patients With Pain Disorders.International review of neurobiology · 2018Review
- Flipping Patients and Frames: The Patient in Relational Medicine.Rambam Maimonides medical journal · 2017Article
- [Placebo response - Mechanisms and clinical applications].Schmerz (Berlin, Germany) · 2016Review
- Clinical Studies of Biofield Therapies: Summary, Methodological Challenges, and Recommendations.Global advances in health and medicine · 2015Article
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5 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Recent findings on placebo research corroborate the evidence that the placebo effect represents a promising model to shed new light on the brain-mind-body interactions. In particular, this research has partially elucidated the role of how patients' expectations and the quality of physician-patient communication can influence the efficacy of interventions and overall clinical outcomes. Accordingly, the study of the placebo effect should be incorporated in the core clinical practice curriculum of all health practitioners. While the growing knowledge of the placebo effect points to it as an irreducible primary reality of the medical sciences, an ethical analysis aimed at avoiding the misuse of placebos is needed, while maximizing the opportunity for beneficial placebo effects.
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