Influence of context effects on health outcomes: a systematic review.

TL;DR: The data presented display that patient experience is positively associated with clinical effectiveness and patient safety, and support the case for the inclusion of patient experience as one of the central pillars of quality in healthcare.

TL;DR: A review of the determinants of external validity in trial publications and systematic reviews is usually inadequate, a checklist for clinicians is presented, and recommendations for greater consideration of External validity in the design and reporting of RCTs are made.

TL;DR: The results of the reviewed studies suggest that empathy decline during medical school and residency compromises striving toward professionalism and may threaten health care quality.

TL;DR: Promotion and integration of laboratory and clinical research will allow advances in the ethical use of placebo mechanisms that are inherent in routine clinical care, and encourage the use of treatments that stimulate placebo effects.

TL;DR: The general Practitioner as Psychotherapist, two Illustrative Cases, and the special Psychological Atmosphere of General Practice: The Apostolic Function-I and the Difficult Case.

TL;DR: The importance and implications of placebo effects in pain treatment and research from the existing literature are estimated, with emphasis on their magnitude and duration, the conditions influencing them, and proposed explanations.

TL;DR: A group of 200 patients who presented in general practice with symptoms but no abnormal physical signs and in whom no definite diagnosis was made were randomly selected for a consultation conducted in a "positive manner," with and without treatment.

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