Resonable risks in clinical research: A critique and a proposal for the Integrative Approach

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 17, 2006, Pages 2869-2885

  London, Alex John ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Common rule; Equipoise; Reasonable risk; Research ethics; Research risk; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL STUDY; COMPETENCE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; RESEARCH ETHICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; ETHICS; METHODOLOGY; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD;

CLINICAL TRIALS; ETHICS COMMITTEES, RESEARCH; HUMANS; RESEARCH DESIGN; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 33747623709     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2634     Document Type: Article

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