title: Controlled clinical trials and medical ethics.
abstract: During the past 5 years, a great deal of public attention has been paid in the Federal Republic of Germany to legal and ethical implications of controlled clinical trials. If a physician is bound by a contract for treatment, the ethics of individual benefit have to be applied and this might inhibit a controlled trial. To avoid ethical and legal difficulties, a contract for experimentation may have to be introduced.
mesh_terms: D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D004341:Drug Evaluation; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D005860:Germany, West; D006805:Human Experimentation; D006806:Human Rights / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D007883:Legislation, Medical; D012107:Research Design