To protect human subjects, review what was done, not proposed

Science

Volumn 335, Issue 6076, 2012, Pages 1576-1577

  Klitzman, Robert ^a   Appelbaum, Paul S ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN EVOLUTION; LITERATURE REVIEW;

GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDICAL AUDIT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESEARCH SUBJECT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; UNITED STATES; ARTICLE; ETHICS; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; RESEARCH ETHICS; STANDARD;

ETHICS COMMITTEES, RESEARCH; ETHICS, RESEARCH; HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPT. OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES;

EID: 84859140135     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1217225     Document Type: Review

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