Placebo Use in Clinical Trials: Ethical Justifications, Design Choices, and Global Compliance Expectations
Placebo Use in Clinical Trials: Ethical Justifications, Design Choices, and Global Compliance Expectations Ethical and Practical Playbook for Placebo Use in Modern Clinical Studies Why Placebos Exist—and the Ethical Frame That Governs Their Use Placebos remain central to clinical research because they help distinguish true treatment effects from expectation, regression to the mean, and background…