Placebo

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Contents 1 See for 2 Broader Terms 3 Related Terms 4 Scope Note 5 Facts (generated by robot; please edit if you find it inaccurate)

See for

placebo effect

Broader Terms

drug screening /evaluation

Related Terms

chemotherapy

Scope Note

pills, injections, or treatments missing the active component of interest, administered to experimental control groups to correct for nonspecific effects.

Facts (generated by robot; please edit if you find it inaccurate)

• But it is not necessarily the case that the placebo is actually effective in such cases.
• Some researchers argue that the phenomenon doesn't even occur; that the placebo effect is merely random error and that any improvement said to be caused by a placebo is simply a spontaneous recovery in the patient's condition (2)(3).
• Review: placebo is better than no treatment for subjective continuous outcomes and for treatment of pain.
• Placebo is any treatment that is devoid of specific actions on the patient's symptoms or diseases that, somehow, can cause an effect upon that patient.
• Placeboworld Archive Read some of the recent press in the archive section.
• No one would question the fact that they worked as a placebo, if at all.

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