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The Use of Placebo Interventions in Medical Practice—A National Questionnaire Survey of Danish CliniciansThe Nordic Cochrane Centre, Copenhagen, and University of Copenhagen
University of Copenhagen The authors sent a questionnaire to 772 randomly selected Danish clinicians and asked them about their use of placebo interventions. Sixty-five percent responded. Among the general practitioners, 86% (95% confidence interval 81-91) reported to have used placebo interventions at least once, and 48% (41-55) to have used placebo interventions more than ten times, within the last year. Hospital-based doctors and private specialists reported to have used placebo interventions less frequently (p <.001). The most important reason for the use of placebo interventions was to avoid a confrontation with the patient. Typical placebos were antibiotics for viral infections. Approximately 30% (28-36) of the clinicians believed in an effect of placebo interventions on objective outcomes, and 46% (42-50) found clinical placebo interventions generally ethically acceptable.
Key Words: placebos/therapeutic use • questionnaires • placebo effect • patient care/methods • professional-patient relations • medical ethics
Evaluation & the Health Professions, Vol. 26, No. 2,
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