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The ethics of using placebo in randomised controlled trials: a case study of a Plasmodium vivax antirelapse trial

BACKGROUND: The use of placebos in randomised controlled trials is a subject of considerable ethical debate. In this paper we present a set of considerations to evaluate the ethics of placebo controlled trials that includes: social value of the study; need for a randomised controlled trial and place...

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Autores principales: Cheah, Phaik Yeong, Steinkamp, Norbert, von Seidlein, Lorenz, Price, Ric N.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5840837/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29510711
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12910-018-0259-4