Nocebo Effect in Meniere's Disease: a Meta-analysis of Placebo-controlled Randomized Controlled Trials.

Objective: To estimate the frequency and strength of nocebo effects in trials for Meniere disease (MD). Data Sources: A literature search was conducted in PUBMED. The search terms we used were " Meniere or Meniere's," "treatment," and "placebo." Limitations included article type to be Clinical Trial or Randomized Controlled Trial, text availability to be Full text, Species to be Humans and Language to be English. Study Selection: We included placebo-controlled pharmaceutical RCTs that referred specifically to MD and recruited at least 10 adults in each arm. We excluded those studies with JADAD score

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