Assertion: placebo's treatment | /r/HasProperty | tested
Facets:
value: rigorously
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: If well designed, these studies expose the experimental group to the specific effect plus all the non-specific effects of an intervention, while the control group is exposed to precisely the same range and amount of non-specific effects but not to the specific effect of the treatment that is being tested.
text: In many trials, the alternative to the treatment being tested is not a placebo, but the current standard-of-care treatment.
text: If there’s no approved treatment for an illness or condition, some people in the study may be given a placebo, while others get the new treatment being tested.
text: Their responses help provide a good way to measure the actual effect of the treatment being tested.
text: Marcia Angell considered that critics felt that healthcare practices should be classified based solely on scientific evidence, and if a treatment had been rigorously tested and found safe and effective, science-based medicine will adopt it regardless of whether it was considered "alternative" to begin with.
text: In medical research, some people in a study may be given a placebo, while others get the new treatment being tested.
text: The “gold standard” for testing interventions in people is the “randomized, placebo-controlled” clinical trial, in which volunteers are randomly assigned to a test group receiving the experimental intervention or a control group receiving a placebo (an inactive substance that looks like the drug or treatment being tested).
text: Placebos are used so that the medical treatment being tested can be compared to another substance.
text: An active placebo is intended to produce the same side effects as the new treatment being tested.
text: 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.