The Ethics of the Randomized Clinical Trial
- 16 September 1982
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 307 (12), 719-724
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm198209163071204
Abstract
THE ethics of medical experimentation on human subjects has attracted much attention in recent years. There has, however, been rather less attention paid to the special ethical problems and dilemmas posed by the randomized clinical trial.The sheer number of such trials, the risks and costs that they involve, and the dangers that are posed both by permitting and by restricting their use would seem to warrant further ethical analysis of the randomized clinical trial.This article attempts to distinguish some of the major ethical problems posed by the randomized clinical trial, to set out some of the principal considerations . . .Keywords
This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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- The Problem of Experimentation on Human BeingsScience, 1953