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ReviewAvicenna journal of medicine

Minimizing nocebo effect: Pragmatic approach.

Majed Chamsi-Pasha, Mohammed Ali Albar, Hassan Chamsi-Pasha

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Review in Avicenna journal of medicine. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 26% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Trial
  2. Review
  3. Pharmacological Management of Pattern Hair Loss.Indian journal of plastic surgery : official publication of the Association of Plastic Surgeons of India · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Majed Chamsi-PashaDepartment of Medicine, King Fahd Armed Forces Hospital, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Mohammed Ali AlbarDepartment of Medical Ethics, International Medical Center, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Hassan Chamsi-PashaDepartment of Cardiology, King Fahd Armed Forces Hospital, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
King Fahd Armed Forces Hospital · SAKing Abdullah International Medical Research Center · SA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The nocebo effect, the inverse of the placebo effect, is a well-established phenomenon, yet under-appreciated. It refers to nonpharmacological, harmful, or undesirable effects occurring after active or inactive therapy. The frequency of adverse events can dramatically increase by informing patients about the possible side effects of the treatment, and by negative expectations on the part of the patient. Patients who were told that they might experience sexual side effects after treatment with β-blocker drugs reported these symptoms between three and four times more often than patients in a control group who were not informed about these symptoms. Nocebo effect has been reported in several neurological diseases such as migraine, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease and neuropathic pain, and in patients with depression. The investigation of the biological and theoretical underpinning of the nocebo phenomenon is at an early stage, and more research is required. Physicians need to be aware of the influence of nocebo phenomenon and be able to recognize it and minimize its effects.

Indexed as

Drugsmedical ethicsnoceboplacebotreatment

Identifiers

PMID29119079
PMCPMC5655643
OpenAlexW2762075933

What Socratic holds

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Registered trials

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