title: In plain sight: a solution to a fundamental challenge in human research.
abstract: The physician-researcher conflict of interest has thus far eluded satisfactory solution. Most attempts to deal with it focus on improving informed consent. But those attempts are not successful and may even make things worse. Research subjects are already voluntarily undertaking the risks of research--we should not ask them to go it alone--to undergo medical "treatment" without medical "care." The only effective solution is that in much clinical research, each research subject should have a doctor independent from the research study.
authors.affiliation: University of Virginia, School of Law, the Department of Public Health Sciences, VA, USA.
authors.forename: Lois
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Shepherd
authors.forename: Margaret Foster
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Riley
mesh_terms: D016265:Conflict of Interest; D028744:Ethics Committees, Research; D033161:Government Regulation; D006805:Human Experimentation / Q000941:ethics* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent / Q000941:ethics; D010344:Patient Advocacy; D010819:Physician's Role; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations / Q000941:ethics*; D035844:Researcher-Subject Relations / Q000941:ethics*; D012308:Risk Management; D014481:United States