Support and the ethics of study implementation: Lessons for comparative effectiveness research from the trial of oxygen therapy for premature babies

Hastings Center Report

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 30-40

  Lantos, John D ^a   Feudtner, Chris ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN; SURFACTANT;

BLOOD; BRAIN INJURIES; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; DEVICES; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ETHICS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; NEONATOLOGY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; OXIMETRY; PARENTAL CONSENT; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PREMATURITY; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RETINOPATHY OF PREMATURITY; STANDARDS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRENDS; UNCERTAINTY;

BRAIN INJURIES; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS RESEARCH; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INTENSIVE CARE, NEONATAL; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MORTALITY; NEONATOLOGY; OXIMETRY; OXYGEN; PARENTAL CONSENT; POSITIVE-PRESSURE RESPIRATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; RETINOPATHY OF PREMATURITY; STANDARD OF CARE; SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRUTH DISCLOSURE; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 84923083269     PISSN: 00930334     EISSN: 1552146X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hast.407     Document Type: Article

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