%0 Journal Article
%T Why We should Assess Patients¡¯ Expectations in Clinical Trials
%A Aziz Shaibani
%A Elisa Frisaldi
%A Fabrizio Benedetti
%J Archive of "Pain and Therapy".
%D 2017
%R 10.1007/s40122-017-0071-8
%X Most of the analgesic clinical trials have failed to succeed over the past years because of the occurrence of large placebo responses. Patients¡¯ expectations about the therapeutic benefit represent a major determinant of the placebo response. Therefore, assessing patients¡¯ expectations should become the rule in any clinical trial. This would allow us to better interpret therapeutic outcomes when comparing placebo and verum groups
%K Clinical trial
%K Expectation
%K Placebo effect
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5447548/