A comparison of placebo effects in clinical analgesic trials versus studies of placebo analgesia
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- 1 October 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health
- Vol. 99 (3) , 443-452
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0304-3959(02)00205-1
Abstract
A previous meta-analysis of clinical analgesic trial studies showed generally low magnitudes of placebo analgesia (N. Engl. J. Med. 344 (2001) 1594). However, as studies included in their analysis used only placebo as a control condition, we conducted two meta-analyses, one in which 23 studiKeywords
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