Placebo Effects of Nurses' Communication alongside Standard Medical Care on Pain and Other Outcomes: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Clinical Tonsillectomy Care

Psychother Psychosom. 2020;89(1):56-58. doi: 10.1159/000503904. Epub 2019 Oct 25.

Liesbeth M van Vliet^{1

2}, Marc B Godfried¹, Gerard W van Deelen³, Menno Kaunang², Ted J Kaptchuk⁴, Sandra van Dulmen^{5

6

7}, Bram Thiel¹, Jozien M Bensing²

¹ Department of Anesthesiology, OLVG Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
² Department of Communication, NIVEL (Netherlands institute for health services research), Utrecht, The Netherlands.
³ Department of ENT, OLVG Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
⁴ Program of Placebo Studies and the Therapeutic Encounter, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁵ Department of Communication, NIVEL (Netherlands institute for health services research), Utrecht, The Netherlands, [email protected].
⁶ Radboud university medical center, Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Department of Primary and Community Care, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, [email protected].
⁷ Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, University of South-Eastern Norway, Drammen, Norway, [email protected].

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