When should placebo surgery as a control in clinical trials be carried out?
Placebo surgery – often maligned as ‘sham surgery’ – is a tough sell to patients and to many clinicians. But could surgical research benefit from increased use of placebo control groups?
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| Format: | Journal article |
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Royal College of Surgeons of England
2016
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