Ethical and scientific considerations for patient enrollment into concurrent clinical trials

Trials

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Myles, Paul S ^a,b,c   Williamson, Elizabeth ^b,d   Oakley, Justin ^b   Forbes, Andrew ^b  

^a ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c National Health and Medical Research Council Practitioner Fellow   (Australia)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autonomy; Co enrollment; Drug interactions; Ethics; Perioperative medicine; Safety; Statistics; Surgery

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; DROPERIDOL; NITROUS OXIDE; ONDANSETRON;

ANESTHESIA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CO ENROLLMENT; COMORBIDITY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FACTORIAL DESIGN; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; PATERNALISM; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PERIOPERATIVE MEDICINE; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 4 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RESEARCH ETHICS; RESEARCH SUBJECT; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; RISK REDUCTION; SAMPLE SIZE; DRUG INTERACTION; ETHICS; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT SELECTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SELECTION BIAS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DRUG INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT SELECTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH SUBJECTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SELECTION BIAS; TRUTH DISCLOSURE;

EID: 84934268640     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17456215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6215-15-470     Document Type: Review

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