Ethical dilemmas encountered during clinical drug trials.
Ethical standards have a basis in antiquity and changes in practice need to be measured by moral considerations that are slower to change. This paper considers present day ethical problems in clinical trials--especially in infection, conflict of interest, financing of scientific studies and publishing (or non-publishing) of the results.
Daikos
George K
GK
Aphiareion Foundation for Chemotherapeutic Studies, Athens University School of Medicine, 12 Stratiotikou Syndesmou Street, GR 10676 Athens, Greece. daik@otenet.gr
D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic / Q000941:ethics*; D016265:Conflict of Interest; D003906:Developing Countries; D004345:Drug Industry; D004358:Drug Therapy; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent; D018579:Patient Selection