Pulling the Plug on Clinical Equipoise: A Critique of Miller and Weijer

, As clinicians, researchers, bioethicists, and members of society, we face a number of moral dilemmas concerning randomized clinical trials. How we manage the starting and stopping of such trials—how we conceptualize what evidence is sufficient for these decisions—has implications for both our obli...

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Main Author: Gifford, Fred (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press 2007
In: Kennedy Institute of Ethics journal
Year: 2007, Volume: 17, Issue: 3, Pages: 203-226
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