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dewophile

07/22/16 9:19 AM

#202797 RE: genisi #202796

Placebo effect

Hi Idit hope all is well great to see you posting here. I haven't read this paper yet but thought it worth mentioning that the placebo effect, at least for some indications, is not necessarily confined to "positive expectations", i.e. concealing the fact a pt is taking a placebo, which has ethical implications when it comes to taking advantage of a placebo in practice since it involves deception. e.g.:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3008733/