RT Article
T1 A Critique of Clinical Equipoise: Therapeutic Misconception in the Ethics of Clinical Trials
JF The Hastings Center report
VO 33
IS 3
SP 19
OP 28
A1 Miller, Franklin G.
A1 Brody, Howard
A2 Brody, Howard
LA English
YR 2003
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1937544915
AB A predominant ethical view holds that physician-investigators should conduct their research with therapeutic intent. And since a physician offering a therapy wouldn't prescribe second-rate treatments, the experimental intervention and the best proven therapy should appear equally effective. 'Clinical equipoise' is necessary. But this perspective is flawed. The ethics of research and of therapy are fundamentally different, and clinical equipoise should be abandoned.
DO 10.2307/3528434