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Therapeutics > Placebos
Pharmaceutical Preparations > Placebos

Preferred term

Placebos  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Sham Treatment

Note

  • usually NIM; do not index routinely for articles on CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; etc., unless particularly discussed; Manual 18.12.13

Scope note

  • 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.

In other languages

  • lumeet

    Finnish

  • lume
  • lumelääke
  • lumelääkitys
  • lumelääkkeet
  • näennäislääke
  • näennäislääkkeet
  • placebo
  • plasebo
  • plasebolääke
  • plasebolääkkeet
  • plasebot
  • Placebo

    Swedish

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D010919

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