"Open label placebo: can honestly prescribed placebos evoke meaningful therapeutic benefits?" "Results from small clinical trials suggesting that placebos can

"Open label placebo: can honestly prescribed placebos evoke meaningful therapeutic benefits?" "Results from small clinical trials suggesting that placebos can be ethically and effectively used in clinical practice warrant further study, argue Ted Kaptchuk and Franklin Miller" BMJ 2018;363:k3889 doi: 10.1136/bmj.k3889 (Published 1 October 2018) http://media.virbcdn.com/files/01/147bb1aea3d8c05b-Kaptchuk-MillerBMJOLP2018.pdf http://media.virbcdn.com/files/01/147bb1aea3d8c05b-Kaptchuk-... "Key messages: - Placebo pills in randomised trials can significantly benefit patients’ subjective symptoms - Using placebo pills clinically is an ethical challenge as prevailing wisdom asserts that deception or concealment is required - Recent small randomised trials suggest that openly prescribing placebo can evoke meaningful therapeutic benefits - More research is required to determine the role for open label placebo and the conditions in which it is effective. "