The power of placebo.

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

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

1. The role of antidepressants in the management of fibromyalgia syndrome: a systematic review and meta-analysis.CNS drugs · 2012
   Pooled it
2. The quantification of placebo effects within a general model of health care outcomes.Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.) · 2011
   Trial
3. A Randomised, Cross-Over, Placebo-Controlled Study of Aloe vera in Patients with Irritable Bowel Syndrome: Effects on Patient Quality of Life.ISRN gastroenterology · 2011
   Article
4. The use of the placebo effect in clinical medicine--ethical blunder or ethical imperative?Science and engineering ethics · 2004
   Review
5. Placebo effect and placebos: what are we talking about? Some conceptual and historical considerations.European journal of clinical pharmacology · 2003
   Article
6. The physician healer: ancient magic or modern science?The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 1999
   Article
7. Evidence-based complementary medicine: a contradiction in terms?Annals of the rheumatic diseases · 1999
   Article

Corrections and comments

• Comment on
  Effect of colour of drugs: systematic review of perceived effect of drugs and of their effectiveness.
• Comment on
  Product names, proper claims? More ethical issues in the marketing of drugs.

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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