title: Private hospital and phase I.
abstract: Since December 1988. French law has authorized phase I studies and the creation of phase I units within public or private hospitals. The scientific standards regarding private hospitals are not different from those in public hospitals. Practitioners who conduct clinical trials in private hospitals are well aware of good clinical practices and methodological constraints. Phase I units can be structured in private as well as within public hospitals. Finally, the question to be addressed is whether clinical pharmacology and scientific investigations in healthy volunteers should be integrated in the policy of private hospitals.
authors.affiliation: Unité de Pharmacologie Clinique, Hôpital Saint-Joseph, Lyon, France.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gallet
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Nony
mesh_terms: D004341:Drug Evaluation; D005602:France; D016304:Hospitals, Private / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D010601:Pharmacology, Clinical