This trans-NIH/DDHHS meeting was co-organized by NCCAM, the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, and 19 other components of NIH and the Department of Health and Human Services.
To provide a scholarly assessment of the state-of-the-art, leading researchers were commissioned to write background papers and present them during the plenary session. In breakout sessions, participants developed recommendations for a future interdisciplinary research agenda related to further elucidating, accounting for, and developing clinical applications of the placebo effect.
The full proceedings were published in March 2002 (The Science of the Placebo: Toward an Interdisciplinary Agenda).and is available through BMJ Books.
