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. 2012 Mar 30;335(6076):1576-7.
doi: 10.1126/science.1217225.

Research ethics. To protect human subjects, review what was done, not proposed

Robert Klitzman  1 , Paul S Appelbaum
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Research ethics. To protect human subjects, review what was done, not proposed

Robert Klitzman et al. Science. .

Abstract

Retrospective review could improve the efficiency—and perhaps the effectiveness—of human subjects research oversight.

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