"This may hurt": predictions in procedural disclosure may do harm
Baruch S Krauss, Baruch S Krauss
Abstract
Open ended statements such as “You may feel something now” allow for patients’ widely varying responses to stimuli and are less likely to invoke a nocebo reaction, says Baruch S Krauss
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