Placebo mania. Placebos are essential when extent and variability of placebo response are unknown.

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

3 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Comparison of home fortification with two iron formulations among Kenyan children: Rationale and design of a placebo-controlled non-inferiority trial.Contemporary clinical trials communications · 2017
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2. When placebo controlled trials are essential and equivalence trials are inadequate.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 1998
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3. Topical NSAIDs are better than placebo. Safety, efficacy, and therapeutic role of nsaids must be clarified.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 1998
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