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| Title |
Strengthening the ethical assessment of placebo-controlled surgical trials: three proposals
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Medical Ethics, October 2014
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| DOI | 10.1186/1472-6939-15-78 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Wendy Rogers, Katrina Hutchison, Zoë C Skea, Marion K Campbell |
| Abstract |
Placebo-controlled surgical trials can provide important information about the efficacy of surgical interventions. However, they are ethically contentious as placebo surgery entails the risk of harms to recipients, such as pain, scarring or anaesthetic misadventure. This has led to claims that placebo-controlled surgical trials are inherently unethical. On the other hand, without placebo-controlled surgical trials, it may be impossible to know whether an apparent benefit from surgery is due to the intervention itself or to the placebo effect. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 31 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 14 | 45% |
| Canada | 3 | 10% |
| Spain | 2 | 6% |
| Germany | 1 | 3% |
| United States | 1 | 3% |
| Côte d'Ivoire | 1 | 3% |
| Unknown | 9 | 29% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 21 | 68% |
| Scientists | 5 | 16% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 5 | 16% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 43 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Germany | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 42 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 6 | 14% |
| Student > Bachelor | 6 | 14% |
| Researcher | 5 | 12% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 4 | 9% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 3 | 7% |
| Other | 7 | 16% |
| Unknown | 12 | 28% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 8 | 19% |
| Psychology | 7 | 16% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 4 | 9% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 3 | 7% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 6 | 14% |
| Unknown | 14 | 33% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 18. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 12 May 2017.
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#1,868,410
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Outputs from BMC Medical Ethics
#180
of 1,009 outputs
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#22,044
of 262,976 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medical Ethics
#3
of 14 outputs
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