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Sham surgery (or placebo surgery) is a faked surgical intervention that omits the step thought to be therapeutically necessary. In clinical trials of surgical interventions, sham surgery is an important scientific control .
-centesis : surgical puncture-tripsy : crushing or breaking up-desis : fusion of two parts into one, stabilization-ectomy : surgical removal (see List of -ectomies). ...
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Clinical trials control for this effect by including a group of subjects that receives a sham treatment. The subjects in such trials are blinded as to whether they receive the treatment or a placebo. If a person is given a placebo under one name, and they respond, they will respond in the same way on a later occasion to that placebo under that ...
Canadian Classification of Health Interventions (CCI) (used in Canada. Replaced CCP.) [2] Current Dental Terminology (CDT); Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (including Current Procedural Terminology) (for outpatient use; used in United States)
A study published in 2014, Symplicity HTN-3, was a prospective, single-blind, randomised, sham-controlled trial in which 535 patients with severe resistant hypertension were randomized to undergo renal denervation or a sham procedure (in a 2:1 ratio).
Frank "Pancho" Martin (December 3, 1925 – July 18, 2012) was a United States' Hall of Fame trainer of Thoroughbred racehorses. [2] He is often remembered as the trainer of Sham, the horse that placed second to Secretariat in two legs of the 1973 U. S. Triple Crown series.
Sham 69, English punk band; Title of a work of art Sham, a lost 1921 silent film based on a Broadway play starring Ethel Clayton; Sham, a 1920 one-act stage play by Frank G. Tompkins; Other uses Sham, a name for the cover of a pillow; SHAM, salicylhydroxamic acid, a drug that works against urinary tract infections