Putting prevention into practice: the physician's role

Article Abstract:

The Agency for Health Care Policy and Research is launching Put Prevention Into Practice (PPIP), a program to encourage physicians to practice preventive medicine. The program advocates increased use of screening mammography, condom use, exercise, weight control, and smoking cessation. Forty percent of surveyed physicians and patients felt that the PPIP program led to changes in practice and in patients' lives.

Methods, Services, Preventive medicine, Medicine, Preventive, United States. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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Are placebo-controlled clinical trials ethical or needed when alternative treatment exists?

Article Abstract:

There are times when it may be ethical to use a placebo in clinical trials. Placebos are inactive substances that are used to determine whether the drug under study is more effective than no treatment at all. However, patients who receive the placebo are being denied a potentially effective treatment.

Editorial

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The ethics of placebo-controlled trials

Article Abstract:

Doctors and researchers continue to argue about the use of a placebo in clinical trials. A placebo is an inactive substance used to determine whether a drug if better than no treatment at all. However, patients taking a placebo are being denied a potentially useful treatment.

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