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Clinical Research Ethics 🏥

Professor Dowie - Clinical Research Ethics.pdf

Summary

• Loads of unethical research coming to light (like the Tuskegee Syphilis Study where African-American men were deliberately infected with syphilis in 1932) has led to the formation of ethics committees and regulations for clinical research, to ever prevent things like that happening again.
• There’s seven criteria for ethical research
  • Social or scientific value - it can’t be of no benefit
  • Scientific validity
  • Fair subject selection
  • Favourable risk-benefit ratio
  • Independent review
  • Informed consent
  • Respect for potential and enrolled subjects

Montgomery Consent 🤝

Professor Dowie - Montgomery Consent.pdf

Summary

• Numerous cases over the years have shape the law and guidelines on what patients need to know before they can consent. The doctor must take reasonable care to ensure that the patient is aware of any material risk involved in the recommended treatment, and of course any reasonable alternative.