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2792618

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1989-11-8
pubmed:abstractText
To investigate whether the personal attention paid to a patient can affect his or her subjective recovery from acute tonsillitis, a controlled study was performed on 100 patients consulting a doctor for this disease. At the consultation a randomly assigned experimental group (n = 50) was given more detailed information about the diagnosis, treatment and prognosis and also a more extensive physical examination than a control group (n = 50). At a follow-up interview two days later significantly more of the experimental group felt that their symptoms had improved (P less than 0.005) than the control group, significantly more felt that the treatment had helped them (P less than 0.005) and significantly more felt they had received sufficient information about their illness and treatment (P less than 0.001). A deliberate attempt to maximize the expectation effect was thus shown to influence the clinical course of acute tonsillitis, recorded as the degree of subjective improvement.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0263-2136
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
6
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
188-92
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1989
pubmed:articleTitle
Effect of patients' expectations on recovery from acute tonsillitis.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Family Medicine, Akademiska sjakhuset, Uppsala, Sweden.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Clinical Trial, Randomized Controlled Trial