Objective To examine the attitudes of US patients about the use of placebo treatments in medical care.
Patients' attitudes about the use of placebo treatments: telephone survey.
"In principle," she said, "I don't have a problem with the thoughtful use of placebo.
Ortiz, R., Chandros, S. & Hull, S. Patient attitudes about the clinical use of placebo: qualitative perspectives from a telephone survey.
The use of placebo in the pediatric age group has come under increasing scrutiny.
In the current case, they wrote, all those objectives were met and the study "exemplifies the ethically justified use of placebo surgery".
"The unethical use of placebo controls in clinical trials is the most widespread problem in medical research today," Dr. Weijer said in a telephone interview.
BMJ Open, 6, e011012, https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2015-011012. Hull, S. et al. Patients' attitudes about the use of placebo treatments: telephone survey.
In 2010 a parliamentary science committee advised that "the government should not endorse the use of placebo treatments including homeopathy".
Since the use of placebo in research remains the only valid formula to demonstrate the effectiveness of new treatments, despite the ethical aspects of the use of placebo, it is necessary to investigate what mechanisms influence this trend.
