Placebo Improvement in Pharmacologic Treatment of Menopausal Hot Flashes
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Placebo improvement in pharmacologic treatment of menopausal hot flashes: time course, duration, and predictors.
OBJECTIVES To characterize the time course, duration of improvement, and clinical predictors of placebo response in treatment of menopausal hot flashes. METHODS Data were pooled from two trials conducted in the Menopausal Strategies: Finding Lasting Answers to Symptoms and Health network, providing a combined placebo group (n = 247) and a combined active treatment group (n = 297). Participant...
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عنوان ژورنال: Psychosomatic Medicine
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0033-3174
DOI: 10.1097/psy.0000000000000143