Inert Placebo Versus Active MedicationPatient Blindability in Clinical Pharmacological Trials
作者:
ALEXANDER BYSTRITSKY,
SACHIN WAIKAR,
期刊:
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
(OVID Available online 1994)
卷期:
Volume 182,
issue 9
页码: 485-487
ISSN:0022-3018
年代: 1994
出版商: OVID
数据来源: OVID
摘要:
Patient blindability was examined in clinical, psychopharmacological, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials involving medications for obsessive-compulsive disorder and major depression. Based on the presence of clinical improvement and side effects, patients were able to determine correctly whether they took medication versus placebo. On the basis of these preliminary findings, the authors question the blindability of patients in clinical trials. Implications for the continued use of double-blind, placebo-controlled trials are discussed.
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