Refers to a clinical study in which the control patients receive a placebo.
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Placebo-controlled: A term used to describe a method of research in which an inactive substance (a placebo) is given to one group of participants, while the treatment (usually a drug or vaccine) being tested is given to another group. The results obtained in the two groups are then compared to see if the investigational treatment is more effective ...
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A randomized clinical trial may include controls in which some of the subjects receive a product which has no active ingredients, referred to as a placebo, e.g. a sugar pill or an injection of normal saline. None of the people in the clinical trial nor the clinical team administering the intervention know who was given the placebo, or the test prod...
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