‘Powerful Placebo: The Dark Side of the Randomised Controlled Trial’
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- Authors
- Kaptchuk, T. J.
- Affiliations
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (US)
- Corresponding author
- Kaptchuk, Ted J
- ORCID
- Kaptchuk, Ted J
- Venue
- The Lancet
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1998-06
- Volume
- 351
- Issue
- 9117
- Pages
- 1722-1725
- ISSN
- 0099-5355 (ISSN-L)
- 0140-6736
- OpenAlex
- W2146129917
- Cited by
- 339
- References
- 44
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 5.70
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- The Lancet (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- DigitalGeorgetown (Georgetown University Library) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Fetzer Institute
- National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (U24 AR3441)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Pain Management and Placebo Effect
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging › Historical Medical Research and Treatments
- Keywords
- placebo, placebo effect, placebo ethics, efficacy evaluation
- MeSH terms
- Double-Blind Method, Ethics, Medical, Humans, Placebos, Placebo Effect, Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic, Risk Assessment, Paternalism, Control Groups, Research Subjects, Biomedical Research, History, 20th Century
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