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Equipoise, design bias, and randomized controlled trials: the elusive ethics of new drug development

The concept of 'equipoise', or the 'uncertainty principle', has been represented as a central ethical principle, and holds that a subject may be enrolled in a randomized controlled trial (RCT) only if there is true uncertainty about which of the trial arms is most likely to benef...

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Autores principales: Fries, James F, Krishnan, Eswar
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2004
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC416446/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15142271
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/ar1170