Food and Drug Administration Public Hearing on the Conduct of Emergency Clinical Research: Testimony of Dr. Pepe-Defending the Rights of All Individuals to Have Access to Potential Life-saving Therapies and Resuscitation Studies

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Pepe, Paul E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INFORMED CONSENT; LIFE EXPECTANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; PUBLIC OPINION; RESUSCITATION; TRAUMATOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33947520445     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2006.12.003     Document Type: Note

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