Medication-attributed adverse effects in placebo groups: implications for assessment of adverse effects.

Winfried Rief; Jerry Avorn; Arthur J. Barsky

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Medication-attributed adverse effects in placebo groups: implications for assessment of adverse effects.

January 31, 2006

Rief W, Avorn J, Barsky AJ. Arch Intern Med. 2006;166(2):155-60.

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The researchers compared data from published clinical trials to evaluate adverse effects and discontinuation rates in placebo groups versus symptom rates in the general population.

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