Presenting a sham treatment as personalised increases the placebo effect in a randomised controlled trial
Background: Tailoring interventions to patient subgroups can improve intervention outcomes for various conditions. However, it is unclear how much of this improvement is due to the pharmacological personalisation versus the non-specific effects of the contextual factors involved in the tailoring pro...
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Language: | English |
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eLife Sciences Publications Ltd
2023-07-01
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Series: | eLife |
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Online Access: | https://elifesciences.org/articles/84691 |