Publication of unethical research studies: The importance of informed consent

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 325-328

  Sade, Robert M ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHICS; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; RESEARCH; REVIEW; SURGEON;

EID: 0037314811     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(02)04323-0     Document Type: Editorial

References (17)

1. Grodin M. Historical origins of the Nuremberg Code. In: Annas GJ, Grodin MA, eds. The Nazi doctors and the Nuremberg Code: human rights in human experimentation. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992:121-44.
2. Percival T. Medical ethics; or, a code of institutes and precepts. Adapted to the professional conduct of physicians and surgeons. London: J. Johnson, 1803:14-5. (Facsimile reproduction of original book, 1985, The Classics of Medicine Library, Birmingham, AL).
3. Beecher H. Research and the individual human subject. Boston: Little, Brown, 1970:219-20.
4. Reichsgesundheitblatt 11, No. 10, March 1931:174-5. Cited by: Grodin M. Historical origins of the Nuremberg Code. In: Annas GJ, Grodin MA, eds. The Nazi doctors and the Nuremberg Code: human rights in human experimentation. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992:130-1.
5. World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki: ethical principles for medical research involving human subjects. JAMA 2000;284:3043-5.
6. Jones JH. Bad blood: the Tuskegee syphilis experiment. New York: Free Press, 1981.
7. Katz J. Experimentation with human beings. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1972:1007-10.
8. U.S. National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biological and Behavioral Research. The Belmont report: ethical principles and guidelines for the protection of human subjects of research. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (DHEW) Publication No. (OS) 78-0012, Appendix I, DHEW Publication No. (OS) 78-0013, Appendix II, DHEW Publication No. (OS) 78-0014. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1978.
9. Protection of Human Subjects, 45 C.F.R.46. 1981, revised 1983, 1991.
10. Xiao ZF, Yang ZY, Liang J, et al. Value of prophylactic radiotherapy after radical surgery for esophageal carcinoma: report on 495 patients. Ann Thorac Surg 2003;75:331-6.
11. 45 C.F.R.46, Sect. 46. 102(d). Definitions Revised, November 13, 2001.
12. The Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, U.S. Department of State. 1999 Country reports on human rights practices. 2000 Feb 25. Available from: URL: http://www.state.gov/www/global/human_rights/1999_hrp_report/china.html. Accessed July 15, 2002.
13. Angell M. Editorial responsibility: protecting human rights by restricting publication of unethical research. In: Annas GJ, Grodin MA, eds. The Nazi doctors and the Nuremberg Code: human rights in human experimentation. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992:276-84.
14. International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. Uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals. 2001 October. Available from: URL: http://www.icmje.org/. Accessed July 15, 2002.
15. Editorial Policy Committee, Council of Biology Editors. Lack of informed consent and institutional review board approval. In: Ethics and policy in scientific publication. Bethesda, MD: Council of Biology Editors, 1990:97-100.
16. Council on Ethical, and Judicial Affairs, American Medical Association. Information from unethical experiments. Report 89, American Medical Association, Chicago, 1998. 1998 June. Available from: URL: http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/5494.html. Accessed July 29, 2002.
17. Levine RJ. Publication of unethical research. In: Ethics and regulation of clinical research. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1994:27-31.