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Bruce Barrett
Researcher at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Publications - 108
Citations - 5192
Bruce Barrett is an academic researcher from University of Wisconsin-Madison. The author has contributed to research in topics: Health care & Randomized controlled trial. The author has an hindex of 36, co-authored 104 publications receiving 4645 citations. Previous affiliations of Bruce Barrett include Johns Hopkins University.
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Medicinal properties of Echinacea: A critical review
TL;DR: Effectiveness in treating illness or in enhancing human health has not yet been proven beyond a reasonable doubt, while there is a great deal of moderately good-quality scientific data regarding E. purpurea.
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Echinacea for preventing and treating the common cold
Marlies Karsch-Völk,Bruce Barrett,David Kiefer,Rudolf Bauer,Karin Ardjomand-Woelkart,Klaus Linde +5 more
TL;DR: Echinacea Products have not here been shown to provide benefits for treating colds, although, it is possible there is a weak benefit from some Echinacea products: the results of individual prophylaxis trials consistently show positive (if non-significant) trends, although potential effects are of questionable clinical relevance.
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Perception of empathy in the therapeutic encounter: effects on the common cold.
David Rakel,Bruce Barrett,Zhengjun Zhang,Theresa J. Hoeft,Betty Chewning,Lucille Marchand,Jo Scheder +6 more
TL;DR: When patients perceive clinicians as empathetic, rating them perfect on the CARE tool, the severity, duration and objective measures (IL-8 and neutrophils) of the common cold significantly change.
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Practitioner empathy and the duration of the common cold.
TL;DR: Clinician empathy, as perceived by patients with the common cold, significantly predicts subsequent duration and severity of illness and is associated with immune system changes.
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Themes of Holism, Empowerment, Access, and Legitimacy Define Complementary, Alternative, and Integrative Medicine in Relation to Conventional Biomedicine
Bruce Barrett,Lucille Marchand,Jo Scheder,Mary Beth Plane,Rob Maberry,Diane Appelbaum,David Rakel,David Rabago +7 more
TL;DR: Interview-based qualitative research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison seeks to probe and develop this theoretical structure of CAM, which is said to be more holistic and empowering yet less legitimate than conventional medicine.