Assessing placebo effects without placebo groups: an untapped possibility?
PainPublished 1 February 2001
Donald D. Price
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The study by Amanzio et al. in this issue of Pain makes several contributions, all of which suggest possibilities for alternative ways of assessing the contributions of placebo effects in analgesic treatments and for maximizing such effects among patients.
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aDepartment of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery,University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32605, USA bDepartment of Neuroscience, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32605, USA *Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, JHMHC, Box 100416, 1600 Southwest Archer Road, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA E-mail: [email protected] Received 27 December 2000; accepted 9 January 2001.
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