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Clinician gate-keeping in clinical research is not ethically defensible: an analysis
Kerith Sharkey1, Julian Savulescu, Sanchia Aranda
1Department of Nursing and Supportive Care Research, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, East Melbourne, Australia.
Abstract:
Clinician gate-keeping is the process whereby healthcare providers prevent access to eligible patients for research recruitment. This paper contends that clinician gate-keeping violates three principles that underpin international ethical guidelines: respect for persons or autonomy; beneficence or a favourable balance of risks and potential benefits; and justice or a fair distribution of the benefits and burdens of research. In order to stimulate further research and debate, three possible strategies are also presented to eliminate gate-keeping: partnership with professional researchers; collaborative research design and clinician education.
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