Structured Summary
Abstract
Any dummy medication or treatment. Although placebos originally were medicinal preparations having no specific pharmacological activity against a targeted condition, the concept has been extended to include treatments or procedures, especially those administered to control groups in clinical trials in order to provide baseline measurements for the experimental protocol.
MeSH Record
Classification
Broader headings
Related Concepts
Knowledge Graph
Drag nodes to rearrange; hover to trace links; click a node to open its page.
MeSH Record
See Also
MeSH Record
Synonyms
1 entry terms
- Sham Treatment
MeSH Record
Aspects Covered
18 allowable subheadings
Indexed with the subheadings administration & dosage, adverse effects, analysis, chemical synthesis, chemistry, classification, economics, history, isolation & purification, metabolism, pharmacokinetics, pharmacology, poisoning, radiation effects, standards, supply & distribution, therapeutic use, toxicity.
MeSH Record
Indexing Annotation
usually NIM; do not index routinely for articles on CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; etc., unless particularly discussed; Manual 18.12.13
MeSH Hierarchy
Tree Numbers
MeSH Record
NLM Classification
WB 330
AMA Style
References
- National Library of Medicine. Placebos. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D010919. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D010919
- Placebos. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo
- Placebos. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q269829