Add to ORKGBackground and Objective: A recent Cochrane review on pla-cebo interventions for all kinds of conditions found that ‘physi-cal placebos ’ (which included sham acupuncture) were associ-ated with larger effects over no-treatment control groups than ‘pharmacological placebos’. We re-analyzed the data from this review to investigate whether effects associated with sham ac-upuncture differed from those of other ‘physical placebos’. Methods: All trials included in the Cochrane review as investi-gating ‘physical placebos ’ were classified as investigating ei-ther (sham) acupuncture or other physical placebos. The latter group was further subclassified into groups of similar interven-tions. Data from the Cochrane review were re-entered into the Rev...
Researchers examining the efficacy of medical procedures make assumptions about the nature of placeb...
BACKGROUND: Poorly described placebo/sham controls make it difficult to appraise active intervention...
Placebo treatments and healing rituals have been used to treat pain throughout history. The present ...
Background and Objective: A recent Cochrane review on placebo interventions for all kinds of conditi...
Introduction: Sham acupuncture was developed to be used as an inert control intervention in clinical...
Sham acupuncture should have two distinct features: first, it must be morphologically similar to ver...
Objectives: To analyse the impact of placebo effects on outcome in trials of selected minimally inva...
No commercial use is permitted unless otherwise expressly granted. Background: An ideal placebo desi...
BACKGROUND: It has been argued that placebos may not have important clinical impacts in general. How...
TO THE EDITOR: Scharf and colleagues (1) reported that the addi-tion of traditional Chinese acupunct...
Since acupuncture came to western countries,research has been done to try and prove whether or not i...
Copyright © 2015 Wei-hong Liu et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative C...
Background: While several recent large randomized trials found clinically relevant effects of acupun...
It has been argued that placebos may not have important clinical impacts in general. However, there ...
Background Placebo or sham controls are the standard against which the benefits and harms of many a...
Researchers examining the efficacy of medical procedures make assumptions about the nature of placeb...
BACKGROUND: Poorly described placebo/sham controls make it difficult to appraise active intervention...
Placebo treatments and healing rituals have been used to treat pain throughout history. The present ...
Background and Objective: A recent Cochrane review on placebo interventions for all kinds of conditi...
Introduction: Sham acupuncture was developed to be used as an inert control intervention in clinical...
Sham acupuncture should have two distinct features: first, it must be morphologically similar to ver...
Objectives: To analyse the impact of placebo effects on outcome in trials of selected minimally inva...
No commercial use is permitted unless otherwise expressly granted. Background: An ideal placebo desi...
BACKGROUND: It has been argued that placebos may not have important clinical impacts in general. How...
TO THE EDITOR: Scharf and colleagues (1) reported that the addi-tion of traditional Chinese acupunct...
Since acupuncture came to western countries,research has been done to try and prove whether or not i...
Copyright © 2015 Wei-hong Liu et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative C...
Background: While several recent large randomized trials found clinically relevant effects of acupun...
It has been argued that placebos may not have important clinical impacts in general. However, there ...
Background Placebo or sham controls are the standard against which the benefits and harms of many a...
Researchers examining the efficacy of medical procedures make assumptions about the nature of placeb...
BACKGROUND: Poorly described placebo/sham controls make it difficult to appraise active intervention...
Placebo treatments and healing rituals have been used to treat pain throughout history. The present ...