Objective: To examine the placebo effect and its potential determinants in the treatment of
osteoarthritis (OA) via a systematic literature search of Medline, EMBASE, Scientific Citation …

We recently published a systematic review and meta-analysis of placebo response in
osteoarthritis (OA) randomised controlled trials (RCTs). This confirmed the appreciable effect …

Background: Placebo controls are essential in evaluating the effectiveness of medical
treatments. Although it is unclear whether different placebo interventions for osteoarthritis …

Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common form of arthritis. Pain and its related function and
stiffness are currently the major symptoms and primary outcomes for treatment. However, the …

Introduction Administration of a placebo associates with symptomatic improvement in many
conditions–the so-called placebo response. In this review we explain the concept of placebo …

Objectives To quantify the placebo effect of intraarticular injections for knee osteoarthritis in
terms of pain, function, and objective outcomes. Factors influencing placebo effect were …

Background. It is widely believed that placebo interventions induce powerful effects. We
could not confirm this in a systematic review of 114 randomized trials that compared placebo …

Background Recent reviews on placebo effects in clinical trials suggest that objective
changes following placebo treatments may not exist or, at least, have been considerably …

Background Placebo treatments have been reported to help patients with many diseases,
but the quality of the evidence supporting this finding has not been rigorously evaluated …

Background: Placebo, defined as “false treatment,” is a common gold-standard method to
assess the validity of a therapy both in pharmacological trials and manual medicine …