Critical review of sham surgery clinical trials: Confounding factors analysis
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Critical review of sham surgery clinical trials: Confounding factors analysis
OBJECTIVE Sham surgery (placebo surgery) is an intervention that omits the step thought to be therapeutically necessary. In surgical clinical trials, sham surgery serves an analogous purpose to placebo drugs, neutralizing biases such as the placebo effect. A critical review was performed to study the statistical relevance of the clinical trials about sham surgery in the light of potential confo...
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عنوان ژورنال: Annals of Medicine and Surgery
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2049-0801
DOI: 10.1016/j.amsu.2016.10.007