Clinical trials with poor methodological quality and inappropriate statistics: Are they ethical?
Year: 2011
Type: article
Abstract: Clinical trials are considered as gold standard for analyzingthe effi cacy of new intervention. India is becoming a hubof clinical trials.[1] Many ethical concerns were raised forthe clinical trials taking place in India.[2,3] Many effortsare taken for improving the ethics of clinical trials, andone of the important steps is registry of clinical trials.[4]Editors of 12 prominent biomedical journals of Indiacame together to announce that after Jan 2010, they willconsider publication of only those clinical trials that areregistered in the Clinical Trial Registry.[5] For any clinicalstudy and, particularly clinical trial, the two importantethical parameters are: written informed consent from theparticipants and permission from the Institutional ethicscommittee. Lot of stress is given for these componentsin various surveys carried out for assessing the ethicalreporting in the published literature.
Authors: Jaykaran, Deepak Saxena
Institution: Government Medical College
Language: English
Subfield: Statistics and Probability
Field: Mathematics
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2088533243