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‘Powerful Placebo: The Dark Side of the Randomised Controlled Trial’
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“Those who carried out such trials have assumed that all therapy incorporated a specific drug effect.”
From The Question of Efficacy (2015) · cites this paper as Kaptchuk 1998b
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Biological, clinical, and ethical advances of placebo effects
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Self-citationComponents of placebo effect: randomised controlled trial in patients with irritable bowel syndrome
Kaptchuk, T. J., Kelley, J. M., Conboy, L. A., Davis, R. B., Kerr, C. E., Jacobson, E. E., Kirsch, I., Schyner, R. N., Nam, B. H., Nguyen, L. T., et al. (2008) · BMJ · doi:10.1136/bmj.39524.439618.25 · Cited by 1,196
Self-citationExpectation and Dopamine Release: Mechanism of the Placebo Effect in Parkinson's Disease
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Metadata
- 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
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 11 · 2022: 12 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 12 · 2019: 8 · 2018: 11 · 2017: 12 · 2016: 8 · 2015: 17 · 2014: 15 · 2013: 16 · 2012: 18
- 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 › Pharmacology (medical) › 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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