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Commentary: ethics of clinical research without patients' consent
1Centre of Medical Law and Ethics, King's College, London.
BMJ (Clinical Research Ed.)
|March 30, 1996
Abstract:
What makes a research project ethical? A series of criteria need to be satisfied. Difficulties arise when only some of them can be satisfied or, as in the case of this trial, when two of them are mutually exclusive. The criteria are that the research is aimed at obtaining a desirable end, that the research subjects will not be harmed by being in the trial, and that the research subjects are consulted before going enrolled into the research.