[Clinical trials and patients' rights: the debate on the position of Veronesi Foundation].
Clinical trials and patients’ rights: the debate on the position of Veronesi Foundation. The ethical committee of Veronesi Foundation released a document casting doubts on the liceity and ethicity of randomization as the control group in clinical trials would be exposed to potentially ineffective or less effective treatments and strumentally used to obtain an increased knowledge and not with the aim of cure. These positions raised a lively debate whose main points are reported in this contribution.
D005582:Foundations; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D028701:Patient Rights; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic / Q000941:ethics*