7 hasil untuk "Jeremy Howick"

The Need for Randomization in Animal Trials: An Overview of Systematic Reviews

Jennifer A. Hirst; Jeremy Howick; Jeffrey K. Aronson dkk.

PLoS ONE, Vol. 9 No. 6 · 2014 · Inggris · PLOS Scopus

Background and Objectives: Randomization, allocation concealment, and blind outcome assessment have been shown to reduce bias in human studies. Authors from the Collaborative Approach to Meta Analysis and Review of Animal Data from Experimental Studies (CAMARADES) collaboration recently found that…

Placebo Use in the United Kingdom: Results from a National Survey of Primary Care Practitioners

Jeremy Howick; Felicity L. Bishop; Carl Heneghan dkk.

PLoS ONE, Vol. 8 No. 3 · 2013 · Inggris · PLOS Scopus

Objectives: Surveys in various countries suggest 17% to 80% of doctors prescribe ‘placebos’ in routine practice, but prevalence of placebo use in UK primary care is unknown. Methods: We administered a web-based questionnaire to a representative sample of UK general practitioners. Following surveys…

Are Treatments More Effective than Placebos? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Jeremy Howick; Claire Friedemann; Maria Tsakok dkk.

PLoS ONE, Vol. 8 No. 5 · 2013 · Inggris · PLOS Scopus

Background: Placebos are widely used in clinical practice in spite of ethical restrictions. Whether such use is justified depends in part on the relative benefit of placebos compared to ‘active’ treatments. A direct test for differences between placebo and ‘active’ treatment effects has not been…

Correction: Are Treatments More Effective than Placebos? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Jeremy Howick; Claire Friedemann; Maria Tsakok dkk.

PLOS ONE, Vol. 11 No. 1 · 2016 · Inggris · PLOS Scopus

Rapid Assessment of Therapeutic Empathy (RATE): Development of a universal single-item empathy scale and validation of the patient-reported version

Amber Bennett-Weston; John Maltby; Kamlesh Khunti dkk.

PLOS One, Vol. 21 No. 9 · 2026 · Inggris · PLOS Scopus

Background: Therapeutic empathy improves patient and practitioner outcomes, yet existing measures are often lengthy, conceptually inconsistent, and difficult to compare across respondent groups. Brief, universal measures (usable by patients, practitioners, students, and observers) are lacking. We…

Feasibility trial of a new digital training package to enhance primary care practitioners’ communication of clinical empathy and realistic optimism

Felicity Bishop; Jeremy Howick; Jane Vennik dkk.

PLOS One, Vol. 20 No. 7 · 2025 · Inggris · PLOS Scopus

Background: Patients can benefit when primary care practitioners communicate clinical empathy and optimism during consultations, but previous training interventions for practitioners are overly time-consuming and evidence on patient outcomes is limited. This study assessed the feasibility of a…

TIDieR-Placebo: A guide and checklist for reporting placebo and sham controls

Jeremy Howick; Rebecca K. Webster; Jonathan L. Rees dkk.

PLOS Medicine, Vol. 17 No. 9 · 2020 · Inggris · PLOS Scopus

…of placebo or sham components and the trials in which they are used. Jeremy Howick and colleagues recommend the use of the TIDieR-Placebo checklist for reporting of sham or placebo controls in trials.