 Placebos
"Placebos" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Any dummy medication or treatment. Although placebos originally were medicinal preparations having no specific pharmacological activity against a targeted condition, the concept has been extended to include treatments or procedures, especially those administered to control groups in clinical trials in order to provide baseline measurements for the experimental protocol.
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D010919
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D26.660 E02.785
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Placebos" by people in this website by year, and whether "Placebos" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 1980 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1990 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 1991 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 1993 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1994 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1995 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1996 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 1997 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1998 | 0 | 6 | 6 | | 1999 | 1 | 5 | 6 | | 2000 | 1 | 3 | 4 | | 2001 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2003 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2004 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 2005 | 0 | 7 | 7 | | 2006 | 0 | 5 | 5 | | 2008 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2010 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2012 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 2013 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2015 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2016 | 0 | 5 | 5 | | 2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2020 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 2021 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Placebos" by people in Profiles.
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Shakir MKM, Brooks DI, McAninch EA, Fonseca TL, Mai VQ, Bianco AC, Hoang TD. Comparative Effectiveness of Levothyroxine, Desiccated Thyroid Extract, and Levothyroxine+Liothyronine in Hypothyroidism. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2021 10 21; 106(11):e4400-e4413.
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Berry-Kravis EM, Harnett MD, Reines SA, Reese MA, Ethridge LE, Outterson AH, Michalak C, Furman J, Gurney ME. Inhibition of phosphodiesterase-4D in adults with fragile X syndrome: a randomized, placebo-controlled, phase 2 clinical trial. Nat Med. 2021 05; 27(5):862-870.
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Gounder M, Abdul Razak AR, Gilligan AM, Leong H, Ma X, Somaiah N, Chawla SP, Martin-Broto J, Grignani G, Schuetze SM, Vincenzi B, Wagner AJ, Chmielowski B, Jones RL, Shah J, Shacham S, Kauffman M, Riedel RF, Attia S. Health-related quality of life and pain with selinexor in patients with advanced dedifferentiated liposarcoma. Future Oncol. 2021 Aug; 17(22):2923-2939.
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Anderson S, Stebbins GT. Determinants of placebo effects. Int Rev Neurobiol. 2020; 153:27-47.
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Smits JAJ, Pollack MH, Rosenfield D, Otto MW, Dowd S, Carpenter J, Dutcher CD, Lewis EM, Witcraft SM, Papini S, Curtiss J, Andrews L, Kind S, Conroy K, Hofmann SG. Dose Timing of D-Cycloserine to Augment Exposure Therapy for Social Anxiety Disorder: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Netw Open. 2020 06 01; 3(6):e206777.
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Tap WD, Wagner AJ, Schöffski P, Martin-Broto J, Krarup-Hansen A, Ganjoo KN, Yen CC, Abdul Razak AR, Spira A, Kawai A, Le Cesne A, Van Tine BA, Naito Y, Park SH, Fedenko A, Pápai Z, Soldatenkova V, Shahir A, Mo G, Wright J, Jones RL. Effect of Doxorubicin Plus Olaratumab vs Doxorubicin Plus Placebo on Survival in Patients With Advanced Soft Tissue Sarcomas: The ANNOUNCE Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA. 2020 04 07; 323(13):1266-1276.
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Hagerman R, Jacquemont S, Berry-Kravis E, Des Portes V, Stanfield A, Koumaras B, Rosenkranz G, Murgia A, Wolf C, Apostol G, von Raison F. Mavoglurant in Fragile X Syndrome: Results of two open-label, extension trials in adults and adolescents. Sci Rep. 2018 11 19; 8(1):16970.
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De Oliveira GS, Rodes ME, Bialek J, Kendall MC, McCarthy RJ. Single dose systemic acetaminophen to improve patient reported quality of recovery after ambulatory segmental mastectomy: A prospective, randomized, double-blinded, placebo controlled, clinical trial. Breast J. 2018 05; 24(3):240-244.
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Ryan CW, Merimsky O, Agulnik M, Blay JY, Schuetze SM, Van Tine BA, Jones RL, Elias AD, Choy E, Alcindor T, Keedy VL, Reed DR, Taub RN, Italiano A, Garcia Del Muro X, Judson IR, Buck JY, Lebel F, Lewis JJ, Maki RG, Schöffski P. PICASSO III: A Phase III, Placebo-Controlled Study of Doxorubicin With or Without Palifosfamide in Patients With Metastatic Soft Tissue Sarcoma. J Clin Oncol. 2016 11 10; 34(32):3898-3905.
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Gottlieb M. Comparison of trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole versus placebo for uncomplicated skin abscesses. CJEM. 2017 Jul; 19(4):308-311.
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