Sham surgical procedures for pain intervention result in significant improvements in pain: systematic review and meta-analysis

Volume: 83, Pages: 18 - 23
Published: Mar 1, 2017
Abstract
To perform a systematic review and meta-analysis to study the magnitude of the placebo effect associated with sham surgery procedures.We conducted a systematic search for randomized controlled clinical trials comparing any type of surgery to a corresponding sham placebo group and compared improvements in the sham treatment arms in subjective, objective, categorical, and continuous outcomes, as well as complication rates and mortality. Effect...
Paper Details
Title
Sham surgical procedures for pain intervention result in significant improvements in pain: systematic review and meta-analysis
Published Date
Mar 1, 2017
Volume
83
Pages
18 - 23
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