State of the Art and Science
Mar 2012
Richard J. Rohrer, MD
The sham effect is alive and well in surgery today. More surgical procedures should be compared to sham controls, or the closest thing we can devise, to help us identify procedures of little or no intrinsic merit.
Virtual Mentor. 2012; 14(3):227-231. doi:
10.1001/virtualmentor.2012.14.3.stas2-1203.