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ArticleBMJ (Clinical research ed.)2018

Open label placebo: can honestly prescribed placebos evoke meaningful therapeutic benefits?

Ted J Kaptchuk, Franklin G Miller

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Article in BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 55 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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.

2 · The registry

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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

55 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Ted J KaptchukProgram in Placebo Studies, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA ted_kaptchuk@hms.harvard.edu.
Franklin G MillerWeill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY USA.

Funding

Efficacy of Open-Label Placebo, Double-Blind Placebo, and Peppermint Oil in IBSR01AT008573 · NCCIH · BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER · PI KAPTCHUK, TED, LEMBO, ANTHONY J · 2015 to 2019
$4.3M
Mentoring and Research in Placebo Studies, Asian Medicine, and CAMK24AT004095 · NCCIH · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI KAPTCHUK, TED · 2007 to 2016
$1.4M
Optimization of brain-based mechanisms supporting psychosocial aspects of acupuncture therapy - a hyperscanning fMRI studyR61AT009306 · NCCIH · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI KAPTCHUK, TED, NAPADOW, VITALY · 2016 to 2017
$959k
NCCIH NIH HHS K24 AT004095NCCIH NIH HHS R01 AT008573NCCIH NIH HHS R61 AT009306
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Placebo EffectHumansPractice Patterns, Physicians'Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic

Identifiers

PMID30279235
PMCPMC6889847

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