Treatment expectation
ID: treatment-expectation
A belief about the likely consequences of treatment that can influence attention, interpretation, behaviour and symptom experience. Experimental changes in expectation at constant drug exposure can distinguish contextual modulation from differences in administered dose.[ref]
The effect of treatment expectation on drug efficacy by Ulrike Bingel and others. Science Translational Medicine 3, 70ra14; fixed remifentanil concentration, heat pain and expectation manipulation
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