Is the Placebo Powerless?
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- 24 May 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 344 (21) , 1594-1602
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm200105243442106
Abstract
Placebo treatments have been reported to help patients with many diseases, but the quality of the evidence supporting this finding has not been rigorously evaluated.Keywords
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