What if Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) treated healthy volunteers in clinical trials as their clients?

Australasian Medical Journal

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 767-771

  Tolich, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Autonomy; Clinical trails; Healthy volunteers; Informed consent; IRBs; University students

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; DECISION MAKING; ETHNOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; STUDENT RECRUITMENT; UNIVERSITY STUDENT; UNSTRUCTURED INTERVIEW;

EID: 78649809255     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18361935     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4066/AMJ.2010.431     Document Type: Article

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