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T1  - Clinical use of placebo treatments may undermine the trust of patients : a response to Gold and Lichtenberg 
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UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/228080 
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A1  - Louhiala, Pekka; Hemila, Harri; Puustinen, Raimo 
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Y1  - 2014 
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AB  - There is an obvious need for a critical discussion of the concepts ‘placebo’ and ‘placebo effect’. In a recent paper on the use of placebos in clinical medicine, Gold and Lichtenberg note the conceptual difficulties but use the terminology in a confused way throughout their paper. In our response, we demonstrate these problems with a few examples from their paper.... 
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KW  - Placebo; 3142 Public health care science, environmental and occupational health 
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