Placebo effects in allergen immunotherapy-An EAACI Task Force Position Paper

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Section of Rhinology and Allergy, University Hospital Marburg, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany.
• ² Transylvania University, Brasov, Romania.
• ³ Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
• ⁴ Berlin Institute of Health, Allergy-Centre-Charité, Berlin, Germany.
• ⁵ Department of Dermatology and Allergy Centre, Odense University Hospital, Odense Research Center for Anaphylaxis (ORCA), Odense, Denmark.
• ⁶ MACVIA-France, Montpellier, France.
• ⁷ University Hospital Montpellier, Montpellier, France.
• ⁸ Division of Allergy & Clinical Immunology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
• ⁹ Creticos Research Group, Crownsville, MD, USA.
• ¹⁰ Department of Airway Diseases, Exhalomics, Hôpital Foch, Université Paris-Saclay, Suresnes, France.
• ¹¹ Allergy and Clinical Immunology, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK.
• ¹² Department of Otorhinolaryngology, University Hospitals of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
• ¹³ Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• ¹⁴ Department of Neuroscience, University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium.
• ¹⁵ Paul-Ehrlich-Institut, Federal Institute for Vaccines and Biomedicines, Langen, Germany.
• ¹⁶ Allergy & Asthma Center Westend, Outpatient Clinic and Clinical Research Center, Berlin, Germany.
• ¹⁷ Center for Rhinology and Allergology, Wiesbaden, Germany.
• ¹⁸ ALC, Allergy Learning and Consulting, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• ¹⁹ Department of Clinical Immunology, Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland.
• ²⁰ All-Med Medical Research Institute, Wroclaw, Poland.
• ²¹ Food Allergy Referral Centre, Padua University Hospital Padua, Padua, Italy.
• ²² Division of Infection, Immunity & Respiratory Medicine, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
• ²³ Allergy Department, 2nd Pediatric Clinic, University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
• ²⁴ Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Philipps-University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany.
• ²⁵ RNTNE Hospital, University College London Hospitals, London, UK.
• ²⁶ Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Immunobiology, University Clinic Essen, Essen, Germany.
• ²⁷ National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK.
• ²⁸ NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Imperial College London, London, UK.
• ²⁹ Department of Dermatology and Venereology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria.
• ³⁰ Allergy Outpatient Clinic Reumannplatz, Vienna, Austria.
• ³¹ Departments of Experimental Immunology and of Otorhinolaryngology, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• ³² Department of Allergy and Faculty of Medicine, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago, Spain.
• ³³ Department of Dermatology and Allergy, Hannover Medical School, Comprehensive Allergy Center, Hannover, Germany.
• ³⁴ Section of Allergology, Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
• ³⁵ Department of Respiratory Medicine, Royal Sussex County Hospital, University of Sussex and University of Brighton, Brighton, UK.