What is Placebo in The Clinical Trial?

The term placebo is not that peculiar to understand as it sounds. It is just a method implemented in the clinical trials to get effective results. The volunteers in the research study will be divided into two groups (more if required) on random selection, few are given the active treatment and the second group is given an in active treatment which is known as placebo. The names of the volunteers who receive the placebo are kept undisclosed from the participants, researches and the doctors. This would help the experts come up with the unbiased report about the medical observation. There is another type of placebo called sham procedure which replicates the active treatment but does not hold any qualities of it.

The participants in the clinical trial should be differentiated with the reactions from the drug treatment and nothing else.  The in convenience faced by the participant in the clinical trial should nothing more than the effects of the specified drug usage.