False Data & the Therapeutic Misconception: Two Urgent Problems in Research Ethics. False Data and Last Hopes: Enrolling Ineligible Patients in Clinical Trials

Author(s)
Vanderpool, Harold Y.
Weiss, Gary B.
Keywords
Beneficence
Cancer
Clinical Trials
Common Good
Critically Ill
Deception
Drugs
Ethics
Fraud
Human Experimentation

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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/455864
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Abstract
A persistent ethical dilemma in research is the potential conflict between the patient-subject's best interests and the principles of scientific methodology. Vanderpool and Weiss discuss the problem in cancer research when a physician falsifies data in order to increase a patient's chances of being selected to participate in a clinical trial. While raising the question of whether such lying is justified if it may prolong the life of a cancer patient for whom there are no other therapeutic options, the authors point out that the inclusion of ineligible subjects may render trial results invalid. (KIE abstract)
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2015-05-05
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Hastings Center Report. 1987 Apr; 17(2): 16-19.
0093-0334
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