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The Ethics of Research on Treatment Discontinuation
1Department of Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh.
Abstract:
Discussions of the ethics of research with human participants frequently focus on early-phase studies that investigate the clinical properties of novel interventions,1 randomized controlled trials that investigate the relative diagnostic, prophylactic, or therapeutic merits of promising new interventions,2 or pragmatic research on existing practices.3 There has also been significant discussion of ethical issues in trials that employ a "washout period," in which participants discontinue one treatment before being exposed to another.4.
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