Clinical trials in neonates: Ethical issues

Seminars in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 318-323

  Allmark, Peter ^a   Spedding, Michael ^b  

^a SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHES INTERNATIONALES SERVIER   (France)

Author keywords

Clinical trial; Consent; Equipoise; Ethics; Neonatology

Indexed keywords

AMPA RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; SOMATOMEDIN C; TIANEPTINE; TOPIRAMATE;

APOPTOSIS; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLD TREATMENT; DRUG MECHANISM; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NEWBORN CARE; NEWBORN HYPOXIA; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; TREATMENT PLANNING;

BIOETHICAL ISSUES; ETHICS, CLINICAL; HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFORMED CONSENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS;

EID: 34249894738     PISSN: 1744165X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.siny.2007.01.023     Document Type: Review

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