Publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals

2022Locher C., Buergler S., Heimgartner N., Koechlin H., Gerger H., Gaab J., Büchi S. (2022). Greater than the sum of the parts: a qualitative content analysis of what constitutes a good treatment in the inpatient setting. BMC health services research, 22(1), 1-12. doi: 10.1186/s12913-022-07834-5 IF: 2.5
2021Sezer D., De Leeuw M., Netzer C. M., Dieterle M., Meyer A. H., Buergler S., Locher C., Ruppen W., Gaab J., & Schneider T. (2021). Open-Label Placebo Treatment for Acute Postoperative Pain (OLP-POP Study): Study Protocol of a Randomized Controlled Trial. Frontiers in Medicine: 2057. IF: 5.091
2021Locher C., Buergler S., Frey-Nascimento A., Kost L., Blease C., & Gaab J. (2021). Lay perspectives of the open-label placebo rationale: a qualitative study of participants in an experimental trial. BMJ open, 11(8), e053346. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-053346 IF: 2.69
2021Annoni M., Buergler S., Stewart-Ferrer, S., & Blease, C. (2021). Placebo Studies and Patient Care: Where Are the Nurses?. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12, 259. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.591913 IF: 4.157
2020Bernstein M. H., Locher C., Kube T., Buergler S., Stewart‐Ferrer S., & Blease C. R. (2020). Putting the ‘Art’into the ‘Art of Medicine’: The Under-Explored Role of Artifacts in Placebo Studies. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 1354. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01354 IF: 2.129
2020Bernstein M. H., Locher C., Stewart‐Ferrer S., Buergler S., DesRoches C. M., Dossett M. L., ... & Blease C. R. (2020). Primary care providers' use of and attitudes towards placebos: An exploratory focus group study with US physicians. British Journal of Health Psychology. doi: 10.1111/bjhp.12429 IF: 2.47
2020Gerger H., Buergler S., Sezer D., Grethler M., Gaab J., & Locher C. (2020). The Healing Encounters and Attitudes Lists (HEAL): Psychometric properties of a German version in comparison with the original HEAL. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 10, 897. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00897 IF: 3.2