Open Access"This may hurt": predictions in procedural disclosure may do harm
Author(s) -
B. S. Krauss
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
bmj
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.831
H-Index - 429
ISSN - 1756-1833
DOI - 10.1136/bmj.h649
Subject(s) - harm , nocebo effect , psychology , nocebo , social psychology , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology , placebo
Open ended statements such as “You may feel something now” allow for patients’ widely varying responses to stimuli and are less likely to invoke a nocebo reaction, says Baruch S Krauss
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