active placebo

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active placebo - a placebo used in experimental tests of a drug that has noticeable side effects; "an active placebo mimics the side effects of the experimental drug"

placebo - an innocuous or inert medication; given as a pacifier or to the control group in experiments on the efficacy of a drug

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On question 2, the method of double-blinding was described and it was appropriate (eg, identical placebo, active placebo, dummy)

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