Clinical Trials as Topic - Ethics
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Science, technology, and innovation: nursing responsibilities in clinical research.

29 Nov 2009 Clinical research is a systematic investigation of human biology, health, or illness involving human beings. It builds on laboratory and animal studies and often involves clinical trials, which are specifically designed to test the safety and ... Read more...

A case study evaluation of ethics review systems for multicentre clinical trials.

5 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the difference in time taken for ethics and site governance approval for multicentre clinical trials using two different systems of ethics review. DESIGN: We evaluated the times to final ethics and governance approval for two ... Read more...

Perspective: Disclosing hidden sources of funding.

30 Aug 2009 In this article, the author discusses ethical and policy issues related to the disclosure of hidden sources of funding in research. The author argues that authors have an ethical obligation to disclose hidden sources of funding and that journals ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Clinical Trials as Topic - Ethics'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Science, technology, and innovation: nursing responsibilities in clinical research. 29 Nov 2009
• Blind enough? Sham subtenon block in pediatric patients. 29 Sep 2009
• Money in biomedicine: The senator's sleuth. 15 Sep 2009
• Ethics scrutiny needed for Chinese-European projects. 8 Sep 2009
• A case study evaluation of ethics review systems for multicentre clinical trials. 5 Sep 2009
• Swine flu vaccine: what is fair? 30 Aug 2009
• Clinical trials and methodological problems in prion diseases. 30 Aug 2009
• Perspective: Disclosing hidden sources of funding. 30 Aug 2009
• The left ventricle: to reconstruct or not--lessons from the STICH trial. 30 Aug 2009
• Scientific and ethical issues related to deep brain stimulation for disorders of mood, behavior, and thought. 30 Aug 2009
• Running an international paediatric non-commercial clinical trial. 30 Aug 2009
• [Causes of globalization of clinica research] 25 Aug 2009
• Health research oversight in Africa. 17 Aug 2009
• European and US agencies will cooperate to ensure ethical conduct of trials. 8 Aug 2009
• Clinical research law in Jordan. 30 Jul 2009
• US puts flu vaccines on trial. Interview by Declan Butler. 28 Jul 2009
• Cancer research and privacy: the problem with being joined at the hip. 18 Jul 2009
• The ethics of altruism in clinical research. 29 Jun 2009
• Benefits, harms, and motives in clinical research. 29 Jun 2009
• Fatal trials: clinical trials are killing people. 29 Jun 2009

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Technical information about 'Clinical Trials as Topic'

Definition: Pre-planned studies of the safety, efficacy, or optimum dosage schedule (if appropriate) of one or more diagnostic, therapeutic, or prophylactic drugs, devices, or techniques selected according to predetermined criteria of eligibility and observed for predefined evidence of favorable and unfavorable effects. This concept includes clinical trials conducted both in the U.S. and in other countries.

Descriptor UI: D002986

Alternative terms: Clinical Trials as Topic; Clinical Trial as Topic;

Related Mesh Headings: Meta-Analysis as Topic; Drug Approval; Clinical Trials Data Monitoring Committees; Therapies, Investigational;

Allowable Qualifiers: adverse effects; classification; economics; history; instrumentation; methods; mortality; nursing; psychology; standards; trends; utilization; veterinary; statistics & numerical data; contraindications; ethics; legislation & jurisprudence;

Tree Number: E05.318.760.535; E05.337.250; N05.715.360.775.235; N06.850.520.450.535;

History Note: 2008(1965)

Technical Notes: for general design, methodology, economics, etc. of clinical trials; a different heading CLINICAL TRIAL is used for reports of a specific clinical trial