Der spezifische Placeboeffekt
Linde, K. · Bundesgesundheitsblatt - Gesundheitsforschung - Gesundheitsschutz · 2006 · Heft 7 · S. 729 bis 735
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Zusammenfassung
Placebo effects are considered a relevant component of any therapeutic intervention. At the same time clinical researchers try to control for them as if they were unspecific noise which cannot be differentiated any further. This article shows that the evidence for clinically relevant placebo effects is contradictory. The author believes that these contradictions are mainly due to the misleading terms and concepts of placebo, specific and unspecific effects. A model interpreting all effects of an intervention (excluding spontaneous changes and measurement error) as specific (having a clear-cut mechanism and a siz…