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Acronym	Definition
PbO	Lead Oxide
PbO	Parliamentary Budget Officer (Canada)
PbO	Placebo
PbO	Publiekrechtelijke Bedrijfsorganisatie
PbO	Piperonyl Butoxide
PbO	Projected Benefit Obligation (pension plan accounting)
PbO	President Barack Obama
PbO	Practical Boat Owner
PbO	Playback Orchestre
PbO	Profiler Binary Output
PbO	Profiler Batch Output
PbO	Plate Boundary Observatory
PbO	Property Book Officer
PbO	Process Before Output
PbO	Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra (San Francisco, CA)
PbO	Performance Based Organization
PbO	Prevention of Bribery Ordinance (Hong Kong)
PbO	Pin Bone Out (seafood purchasing specification)
PbO	Polybenzoxazole
PbO	Portland Baroque Orchestra (Oregon)
PbO	Pixel Buffer Object
PbO	Public Benefit Organization
PbO	Personal Banking Officer
PbO	Packed By Owner (shipping label)
PbO	Prevent Blindness Ohio
PbO	Power Back Off
PbO	Pittsboro, NC
PbO	Plan and Budget Organization (Iran)
PbO	Paraburdoo, Western Australia, Australia - Paraburdoo (Airport Code)
PbO	Priority Banking Officer
PbO	Pre-Birth Order (legal adoption order)
PbO	Post Burn Out
PbO	Plan, Build and Operate
PbO	Private Banking Online
PbO	Pocket Box Office (mobile games by Airborne Entertainment, Inc.)
PbO	Program & Budget Office
PbO	Pension Buyout Obligation
PbO	Presiding Bishop's Office (LDS church)
PbO	Polarized Born-Oppenheimer
PbO	Poly-Paraphenylene-2 6-Benzobisoxazole (Zylon)
PbO	Penicillin in Beeswax
PbO	Profit Before Overhead
PbO	Performance Based Objective
PbO	Polymorphic Buffer Overflow (security attack)
PbO	Provided by Owner (construction industry)
PbO	Prescribed Brand Only
PbO	Prohibited Behaviour Order (judicial sentencing; Australia)

References in periodicals archive

The problem of course can lie in the misuse or abuse of placebos. The American Medical Association (AMA) Code of Ethics states that physicians may use placebos for diagnosis and treatment only with the patient's cooperation and consent; placebos should not be given to "mollify a difficult patient." The placebo enterprise is booming and online.

Pleasing Placebo

If a new drug performs no better than a placebo, that drug is rejected as having no curative effect.

Is the placebo effect more than just positive thinking?

When inducing placebo hypoalgesia or nocebo hyperalgesia by verbal suggestions alone, results are inconsistent, sometimes resulting only in weak [24] or even no effects [25, 29, 30] and at other times leading to robust pain reduction [10, 31] or increase [10, 32].

The Underestimated Significance of Conditioning in Placebo Hypoalgesia and Nocebo Hyperalgesia

There may be a few circumstances in psychiatric practice when it makes sense to intentionally prescribe a placebo as treatment, and we discuss those below.

The placebo effect in psychiatric practice: This well-known effect can be harnessed to improve treatment

It was not until late 1955 that for the first time someone elucidated that placebo could have healing potential with Henry K.

Revisiting the Randomized Controlled Trial

The problem is that the placebo worked just as well.

Curmudgeon's corner: magnesium and hot flashes: the ethics of placebos

One hypothesis is that the placebo causes your brain to have a response that trickles down to other parts of the body.

The Placebo - A Fake Painkiller?

Both placebos improved motor function compared with their respective baseline; however, a significantly greater improvement was observed in the "expensive" placebo when compared to the "cheap" placebo.

Expensive placebo compared to cheap placebo treatment in Parkinson's disease

In the placebo effect, patients given a nonmedically active substance, such as a sugar pill, report improvement in their condition because they think they have been given something that will help.

Genes may influence placebo effect: response to sham treatment depends on certain DNA details

This collection contains five review articles and four original articles on the placebo effect and its basic mechanisms and clinical applications.

Placebo Effects: Basic Mechanisms and Clinical Applications

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