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Bookmark or Share- Do experimenters in clinical trials refuse to give a placebo to a ...1 In clinical trials to test a new drug, typically there is a group who takes the new drug and another group which gets another already existing drug which is supposed to be effective or a placebo. Each participant is allocated to a group randomly.
- placebo - Study about beliefs overriding drug effect - Medical Sciences ...Now placebo is one thing that is documented and proven. However, I came across the following which claims that our beliefs can override drug effect: One researcher in this field, Dr. Henry Beecher...
- When would a placebo/control group *not* be used in medical research?The answers to the questions above give some very good reasons why a placebo or control group is necessary even when 'common sense' seems to indicate that it is not. That makes me wonder - is there any plausible scenario in clinical trials where having a control or placebo group would not make sense?
- statistics - The placebo effect - Medical Sciences Stack ExchangeIs it possible to eliminate the groups of placebos in all those clinical trials that have a precision medicine nature? Since if it is precision medicine, it is supposed to cure 100% of those affect...
- Is there a proven way to test if I'm susceptible to the placebo effect?The placebo effect is a feature of large studies. You can't perform a large study on a single patient. In individual cases, there is simply too much variability - you can never know if a difference in outcome was due to "the placebo effect" or some other variable. You cannot perform the two halves of the study (placebo/nothing at all) yourself.
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