Placebo pills provided without deception may help to reduce pain and disability in people with chronic low back pain [synopsis].

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Salivary Cortisol Levels and Burning Symptoms in Patients with Burning Mouth Syndrome before and after Low Level Laser Therapy: a Double Blind Controlled Randomized Clinical Trial.Acta stomatologica Croatica · 2020
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2. "I put it in my head that the supplement would help me": Open-placebo improves exercise performance in female cyclists.PloS one · 2019
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Corrections and comments

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  Open-label placebo treatment in chronic low back pain: a randomized controlled trial.2016

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Funding

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Abstract

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