Does placebo surgery-controlled research call for new provisions to protect human research participants?

American Journal of Bioethics

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 50-53

  Vawter, Dorothy E ^a   Gervais, Karen G ^a   Freeman, Thomas B ^b  

^a Minnesota Center for Health Care Ethics   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO;

ADULT; BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; ETHICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGERY;

BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

ADULT; HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; HUMANS; PLACEBOS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE;

EID: 16644393851     PISSN: 15265161     EISSN: 15360075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/152651603322614607     Document Type: Note

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