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CONTROLLED AND UNCONTROLLED STUDIES ON “FIORINAL‐PA” FOR SYMPTOMATIC RELIEF IN TENSION HEADACHE
Author(s) -
Thorpe Petek
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1970.tb87378.x
Subject(s) - medicine , tension headache , aspirin , incidence (geometry) , anesthesia , double blind , drug , pharmacology , migraine , alternative medicine , placebo , physics , pathology , optics
A double‐blind cooperative study by general practitioners submitted “Fiorinai‐Pa” (a compound of aspirin, caffeine, isobutylallylbarbituric acid and paracetamol) to an assessment in tension headache. The results were significant. A different group of practitioners used a second group of patients to assess the drug in an uncontrolled situation. The results were less favourable (70% efficacy compared with 84% efficacy), although the incidence of side effects was the same in the two groups.