The Ethics of Clinical Research in the Third World
- 18 September 1997
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in The New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 337 (12), 847-849
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199709183371209
Abstract
An essential ethical condition for a randomized clinical trial comparing two treatments for a disease is that there be no good reason for thinking one is better than the other.1,2 Usually, investigators hope and even expect that the new treatment will be better, but there should not be solid evidence one way or the other. If there is, not only would the trial be scientifically redundant, but the investigators would be guilty of knowingly giving inferior treatment to some participants in the trial. The necessity for investigators to be in this state of equipoise2 applies to placebo-controlled trials, as . . .Keywords
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