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Counting your chickens before they hatch: improvements in an untreated chronic pain population, beyond regression to the mean and the placebo effect.
Authors
Sean M, Coulombe-Lévêque A, Nadeau W, Charest AC, Martel M, Léonard G, Tétreault P
Abstract
Isolating the effect of an intervention from the natural course and fluctuations of a condition is a challenge in any clinical trial, particularly in the field of pain. Regression to the mean (RTM) may explain some of these observed fluctuations.
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