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ArticlePostepy dermatologii i alergologii2018

Evaluation of the placebo effect in the trials of allergen immunotherapy effectiveness: meta-analysis of randomized and placebo-controlled trials.

Michał Abramowicz, Jerzy Kruszewski, Andrzej Chciałowski

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Article in Postepy dermatologii i alergologii, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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  1. EAACI Allergen Immunotherapy User's Guide.Pediatric allergy and immunology : official publication of the European Society of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology · 2020
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Michał AbramowiczDepartment of Infectious Diseases and Allergology, Military Institute of Medicine, Warsaw, Poland.
Jerzy KruszewskiDepartment of Infectious Diseases and Allergology, Military Institute of Medicine, Warsaw, Poland.
Andrzej ChciałowskiDepartment of Infectious Diseases and Allergology, Military Institute of Medicine, Warsaw, Poland.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionThe total effect of the method of treatment is composed of its specific activity depending on its impact on the disease mechanism and the non-specific activity, i.e. the placebo effect. Many methods of treatment make use of such an inflammatory action.

aimTo assess the placebo effect in the overall result of the specific immunotherapy and the analysis of its dependence on the type of specific immunotherapy, the disease, the age of a patient, the type of allergy, indicators used (objective and subjective), in patients with allergic diseases - asthma, allergic rhinitis and/or allergic conjunctivitis. MATERIAL AND

methodsA systematic review of Medline database was conducted using the EntrezPubmed search engine to find randomized placebo-controlled trials evaluating the effectiveness of specific immunotherapy in the treatment of asthma, allergic rhinitis and/or allergic conjunctivitis. After determining the contribution of the placebo effect for each of the test subjects, the calculation involved the average share of the placebo effect depending on the type of specific immunotherapy used, the type of disease, the age of the test subject, the type of allergy and the used measures of their effectiveness.

resultsThe share of the placebo effect in the overall specific immunotherapy effect amounted to 39% and was comparable in the analyzed disease entities. A significantly higher share (

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immunotherapymeta-analysisplacebo effect

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PMID30618532
PMCPMC6320494

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