Is clinical research and ethics a zero-sum game?

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 912-913

  Weijer, Charles ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL RESEARCH; EDITORIAL; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; GAME; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; INTENSIVE CARE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; VENTILATOR;

BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

CLINICAL TRIALS; CRITICAL CARE; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 17044390881     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000159692.43458.51     Document Type: Editorial

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