When referring physicians and researchers disagree on equipoise: The TOTAL trial experience

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 589-594

  Rodrigues, H C M L ^a   Deprest, J ^b   Berg, P P V D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Equipoise; Ethics; Maternal fetal surgery; Randomized clinical trials

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONGENITAL DIAPHRAGM HERNIA; FETUS SURGERY; HUMAN; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); THERAPEUTIC MISCONCEPTION; TRACHEA OBSTRUCTION;

CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); DISSENT AND DISPUTES; FEMALE; FETOSCOPY; HERNIA, DIAPHRAGMATIC; HUMANS; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PATIENT SELECTION; PHYSICIANS, PRIMARY CARE; PREGNANCY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RESEARCH DESIGN; RESEARCH PERSONNEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THERAPEUTIC EQUIPOISE;

EID: 79956258099     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: 10970223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.2756     Document Type: Article

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