Is the concept of clinical equipoise still relevant to research?

Affiliations

¹ Harvard Center for Bioethics, Boston, MA, USA shey@bwh.harvard.edu annette.rid@kcl.ac.uk.
² Program on Regulation, Therapeutics, and Law, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
³ Center for Ethics and Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
⁴ Departments of Philosophy and Medicine, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada.
⁵ Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, King's College London, London, UK shey@bwh.harvard.edu annette.rid@kcl.ac.uk.
⁶ Medical Ethics in Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, USA.

Spencer Phillips Hey et al. BMJ. 2017.

. 2017 Dec 28:359:j5787.

doi: 10.1136/bmj.j5787.

¹ Harvard Center for Bioethics, Boston, MA, USA shey@bwh.harvard.edu annette.rid@kcl.ac.uk.
² Program on Regulation, Therapeutics, and Law, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
³ Center for Ethics and Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
⁴ Departments of Philosophy and Medicine, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada.
⁵ Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, King's College London, London, UK shey@bwh.harvard.edu annette.rid@kcl.ac.uk.
⁶ Medical Ethics in Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, USA.

Erratum in

Is the concept of clinical equipoise still relevant to research?
[No authors listed] [No authors listed] BMJ. 2018 Mar 5;360:k1065. doi: 10.1136/bmj.k1065. BMJ. 2018. PMID: 29507042 No abstract available.

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