Honest Deception: The Importance of Sham-Controlled Trials

JACC Cardiovasc Interv. 2023 Oct 23;16(20):2558-2560. doi: 10.1016/j.jcin.2023.08.015.

Authors

Neal W Dickert¹, Chandan M Devireddy²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; Emory Health Services Research Center, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Electronic address: Njr@emory.edu.
² Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

PMID: 37879809
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcin.2023.08.015

No abstract available

Keywords: clinical trials; ethics; placebo; research ethics; sham intervention.

Publication types

Review
Comment

MeSH terms

Deception*
Humans
Informed Consent*
Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic
Treatment Outcome