Attitudes of patients and surgeons towards sham surgery trials: a protocol for a scoping review of attributes to inform a discrete choice experiment

Introduction In order to properly evaluate the efficacy of orthopaedic procedures, rigorous, randomised controlled sham surgery trial designs are necessary. However, randomised controlled trials (RCTs) for surgery involving a placebo are ethically debated and difficult to conduct with many failing t...

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Main Authors: Angela Smith, Peter F M Choong, Michelle M Dowsey, Samantha Bunzli, Philip Clarke, Laura Wall, Madeleine Hinwood, Danielle Lang, Francesco Paolucci
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMJ Publishing Group 2020-03-01
Series:BMJ Open
Online Access:https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/10/3/e035870.full