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Metas de Enfermería

Metas de Enfermería

JULIO 2000 N° 27 Volumen 3

The placebo effect

Section: Featured Articles

Authors

Raquel Jiménez Agustín

Position

Enfermera psiquiátrica. Supervisora de Enfermería del Hospital Psiquiátrico de Plasencia, Cáceres

Contact address

Avda. de Extremadura, Parcela 24, Bloque 4, 3. 10600 Plasencia, Cáceres.

Abstract

Placebo is a medicine or a therapeutic procedure without neither pharmacological activity or utility for an specific clinical condition. The placebo’seffects are the patients modifications, objectives and subjetives ons, resueting from placebo administration. Characteristics, utilities and associatedfactors of placebo’s effect are analyzad in this article.

Keywords:

placebo effect; nocebo effecttherapeutic effect

Versión en Español

Título:

El efecto placebo