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ArticleMedicines (Basel, Switzerland)2020

Can an Open-Label Placebo Be as Effective as a Deceptive Placebo? Methodological Considerations of a Study Protocol.

Leo Druart, SaraEve Graham Longsworth, Carole Rolland, Maïa Dolgopoloff, Hugo Terrisse, Jean-Luc Bosson, Nicolas Pinsault

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Article in Medicines (Basel, Switzerland), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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2citing papers in PubMed, 1 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.

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

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Manual Therapy Effect in Placebo-Controlled Trials: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
    Pooled it
  2. Placebo: a brief updated review.Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology · 2022
    Review
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

7 authors.

Leo DruartPhysiotherapy Department, University Grenoble Alpes, 38000 Grenoble, France.
SaraEve Graham LongsworthTechniques pour l'Évaluation et la Modélisation des Actions de Santé (ThEMAS), Techniques de l'Ingénierie Médicale et de la Complexité (TIMC), Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) 5525, Université Grenoble-Alpes, 38000 Grenoble, France.
Carole RollandTechniques pour l'Évaluation et la Modélisation des Actions de Santé (ThEMAS), Techniques de l'Ingénierie Médicale et de la Complexité (TIMC), Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) 5525, Université Grenoble-Alpes, 38000 Grenoble, France.
Maïa DolgopoloffPhysiotherapy Department, University Grenoble Alpes, 38000 Grenoble, France.
Hugo TerrisseTechniques pour l'Évaluation et la Modélisation des Actions de Santé (ThEMAS), Techniques de l'Ingénierie Médicale et de la Complexité (TIMC), Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) 5525, Université Grenoble-Alpes, 38000 Grenoble, France.ORCID 0000-0001-8239-1903
Jean-Luc BossonTechniques pour l'Évaluation et la Modélisation des Actions de Santé (ThEMAS), Techniques de l'Ingénierie Médicale et de la Complexité (TIMC), Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) 5525, Université Grenoble-Alpes, 38000 Grenoble, France.
Nicolas PinsaultPhysiotherapy Department, University Grenoble Alpes, 38000 Grenoble, France.

Funding

Fondation APICIL 1251.18
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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clinical trialcold pressor testethicsopen label placebopainplacebo

Identifiers

PMID31906435
PMCPMC7168289

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