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Debriefing and accountability in deceptive researchFranklin G Miller
Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
Kennedy Inst Ethics J 18:235-51. 2008..We also present recommendations concerning the discussion of deception in scientific articles reporting the results of research using deception...
The enduring legacy of sham-controlled trials of internal mammary artery ligationFranklin G Miller
Department of Bioethics, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892 1156, USA
Prog Cardiovasc Dis 55:246-50. 2012..Revisiting the story of internal mammary artery ligation offers valuable insights into the ethics of sham-controlled trials and the implications of the placebo effect for thinking about risk-benefit assessment of sham procedures...
Homage to Henry Beecher (1904-1976)Franklin G Miller
Department of Bioethics, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Building 10, Room 1C118, Bethesda, MD 20892 1156, USA
Perspect Biol Med 55:218-29. 2012..To appreciate Beecher's legacy, it is salutary to explicate the significance of his enduring contributions and to critically evaluate their limitations...
The ethical challenge of infection-inducing challenge experimentsF G Miller
Department of Clinical Bioethics, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892 1156, USA
Clin Infect Dis 33:1028-33. 2001....
The power of context: reconceptualizing the placebo effectFranklin G Miller
Department of Clinical Bioethics, National Institutes of Health, USA
J R Soc Med 101:222-5. 2008
Coverage with evidence development: ethical issues and policy implicationsFranklin G Miller
Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 1156, USA
Med Care 46:746-51. 2008..In this article we review the policy rationale for CED and present a normative analysis that addresses ethical concerns and policy implications...
Sham surgery: an ethical analysisFranklin G Miller
Department of Clinical Bioethics, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892 1156, USA
Sci Eng Ethics 10:157-66. 2004....
An apology for Socratic bioethicsFranklin G Miller
Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health, Building 10, Room 1C118, Bethesda, MD 20892 1156, USA
Am J Bioeth 8:3-7. 2008..In this article we explore tensions between these two dimensions of bioethics and examine the merits and perils of a "Socratic" approach to bioethics that challenges "the conventional wisdom."..
Benefit in phase 1 oncology trials: therapeutic misconception or reasonable treatment option?Franklin G Miller
Department of Bioethics, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892 1156, USA
Clin Trials 5:617-23. 2008..Motivation to enroll in these studies to receive personal benefit does not, in itself, compromise informed consent...
The ethical relevance of the standard of care in the design of clinical trialsFranklin G Miller
Department of Clinical Bioethics, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-1156, USA
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 169:562-4. 2004
Deception of subjects in neuroscience: an ethical analysisFranklin G Miller
Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-1156, USA
J Neurosci 28:4841-3. 2008
Clinical equipoise and the incoherence of research ethicsFranklin G Miller
Department of Clinical Bioethics Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 1156, USA
J Med Philos 32:151-65. 2007..In the final sections of the article, we elaborate on the non-exploitation framework for the ethics clinical research and indicate issues that warrant further inquiry...
Acupuncture trials and informed consentF G Miller
Department of Clinical Bioethics, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Building 10, Room 1C118, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
J Med Ethics 33:43-4. 2007..Participants in placebo-controlled acupuncture trials should be provided an accurate disclosure regarding the use of sham acupuncture, consistent with the practice of placebo-controlled drug trials...
Sham procedures and the ethics of clinical trialsFranklin G Miller
Department of Clinical Bioethics, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health Building 10, Room 1C118, Bethesda, MD 20892-1156, USA
J R Soc Med 97:576-8. 2004
William James, faith, and the placebo effectFranklin G Miller
Department of Clinical Bioethics, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Building 10, Room 1C118, Bethesda, MD 20892 1156, USA
Perspect Biol Med 48:273-81. 2005....
The nature and power of the placebo effectFranklin G Miller
Intramural Research Program, National Institute of Mental Health, Department of Clinical Bioethics, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Building 10, Room 1C118, Bethesda, MD 20892 1156, USA
J Clin Epidemiol 59:331-5. 2006....
Is it ethical to keep interim findings of randomised controlled trials confidential?F G Miller
Department of Clinical Bioethics, NIH Clinical Center, Building 10, Room 1C118, Bethesda, MD 20892 1156, USA
J Med Ethics 34:198-201. 2008..Taken together, these considerations suggest confidential data monitoring, subject to adequate safeguards, is ethically acceptable...
Ethical issues in surgical researchFranklin G Miller
Department of Clinical Bioethics, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892 1156, USA
Thorac Surg Clin 15:543-54. 2005....
The relevance of empirical research in bioethicsFranklin G Miller
Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Building 10, Room 1C118, Bethesda, MD 20892 1156, USA
Schizophr Bull 32:37-41. 2006..In order to examine the value and limitations of ethics-related empirical research, we discuss 3 case studies involving research with stored biological samples, placebo-controlled trials, and the idea of the therapeutic misconception...
Deception in research on the placebo effectFranklin G Miller
Department of Clinical Bioethics, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
PLoS Med 2:e262. 2005
Ethical issues in research with healthy volunteers: risk-benefit assessmentFranklin G Miller
Department of Clinical Bioethics, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bldg 10, Room 1C118, Bethesda, MD 20892-1156, USA
Clin Pharmacol Ther 74:513-5. 2003
Limits to research risksF G Miller
Department of Bioethics, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Building 10, Bethesda, Maryland 208921 156, USA
J Med Ethics 35:445-9. 2009..However, attention to the uncertainty of potential social benefit that can be derived from any particular study warrants caution in exposing prospective research participants to a substantial likelihood of serious harm...
Dispensing with equipoiseFranklin G Miller
Department of Bioethics, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Building 10, Room 1C118, Bethesda, MD 20892 1156, USA
Am J Med Sci 342:276-81. 2011..I conclude that it is time to dispense with equipoise. The principles of research ethics are sufficient to provide adequate guidance to protect subjects and to promote socially valuable research without any appeal to equipoise...
Research and complicity: the case of Julius HallervordenFranklin G Miller
Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892 1156, USA
J Med Ethics 38:53-6. 2012..It is argued that this case constitutes a paradigm of complicity in research that is useful in assessing complicity in contemporary research ethics...
Ethical assessment of industry-sponsored clinical trials: a case analysisFranklin G Miller
Department of Clinical Bioethics, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892 1156, USA
Chest 121:1337-42. 2002....
The placebo phenomenon and medical ethics: rethinking the relationship between informed consent and risk-benefit assessmentFranklin G Miller
Department of Bioethics Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Building 10, Bethesda, MD 20892 1156, USA
Theor Med Bioeth 32:229-43. 2011..In this paper we discuss the implications of placebo and nocebo research for risk-benefit assessment and informed consent...
Unnecessary use of placebo controls: the case of asthma clinical trialsFranklin G Miller
Department of Clinical Bioethics, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Building 10, Room 1C118, Bethesda, MD 20892-1156, USA
Arch Intern Med 162:1673-7. 2002
Understanding and harnessing placebo effects: clearing away the underbrushFranklin G Miller
Department of Bioethics, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Building 10, Room 1C118, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
J Med Philos 36:69-78. 2011..Clearing away the conceptual underbrush is needed to lay down a path to understanding and harnessing placebo effects in clinical medicine...
Semiotics and the placebo effectFranklin G Miller
Department of Bioethics, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892 1156, USA
Perspect Biol Med 53:509-16. 2010..The semiotic approach dovetails with the various psychological mechanisms invoked to account for placebo effects, such as conditioning and expectation, and bridges the biological and cultural dimensions of this fascinating phenomenon...
Reporting of ethical issues in publications of medical researchFranklin G Miller
Department of Clinical Bioethics, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892 1156, USA
Lancet 360:1326-8. 2002..We recommend a policy of extensive reporting of pertinent ethical issues to promote public accountability for clinical research. Guidelines are presented, and possible objections to this recommended policy are addressed...
Decapitation and the definition of deathFranklin G Miller
Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892 1156, USA
J Med Ethics 36:632-4. 2010..In this article we refute this 'decapitation gambit.' We argue that decapitated animals are not necessarily dead, and that, moreover, the analogy between decapitation and the clinical syndrome of brain death is flawed...
When do the federal regulations allow placebo-controlled trials in children?Franklin G Miller
Department of Clinical Bioethics, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
J Pediatr 142:102-7. 2003
Moral fictions and medical ethicsFranklin G Miller
Department of Bioethics, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892 1156, USA
Bioethics 24:453-60. 2010..When these moral fictions are exposed, it becomes apparent that conventional medical ethics relating to end-of-life decisions is radically mistaken...
Death and organ donation: back to the futureF G Miller
Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892 1156, USA
J Med Ethics 35:616-20. 2009..To understand the ethical situation that we now face, it is helpful to revisit the writings of the philosopher Hans Jonas, who forcefully challenged the emerging effort to redefine death in the late 1960s...
The therapeutic orientation to clinical trialsFranklin G Miller
Department of Clinical Bioethics, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-1156, USA
N Engl J Med 348:1383-6. 2003
Clinical research with healthy volunteers: an ethical frameworkFranklin G Miller
Department of Clinical Bioethics, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Building 10, Room 1C118, Bethesda, MD 20892 1156, USA
J Investig Med 51:S2-5. 2003....
The placebo effect: illness and interpersonal healingFranklin G Miller
Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892 1156, USA
Perspect Biol Med 52:518-39. 2009..Finally, we argue that research on the placebo effect has the potential to revitalize the art of medicine...
The legitimacy of placebo treatments in clinical practice: evidence and ethicsFranklin G Miller
Department of Bioethics Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892 1156, USA
Am J Bioeth 9:39-47. 2009..The conclusion is reached that based on currently available evidence, it is premature to judge whether placebo treatments are ethically justifiable, with the possible exception of acupuncture for pain relief...
The dead donor rule: can it withstand critical scrutiny?Franklin G Miller
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892 1156, USA
J Med Philos 35:299-312. 2010..This leaves the current practice of organ transplantation based on the "moral fiction" that donors are dead when vital organs are procured...
Viewpoint: professional integrity in industry-sponsored clinical trialsFranklin G Miller
Unit on Clinical Research, Department of Clinical Bioethics, National Institutes of Health, Building 10, Room 1C118, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
Acad Med 80:899-904. 2005..Educational interventions promoting integrity in clinical research may be one part of affecting such change...
Does research ethics rest on a mistake?Franklin G Miller
Department of Clinical Bioethics, National Institutes of Health, USA
Am J Bioeth 5:34-6; author reply W15-8. 2005
Assessing the ethics of ethics research: a case studyFranklin G Miller
Unit on Clinical Research, Department of Clinical Bioethics, National Institutes of Health, USA
IRB 26:9-12. 2004
Assessing research risks systematically: the net risks testD Wendler
Department of Clinical Bioethics, The NIH Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
J Med Ethics 33:481-6. 2007....
Equipoise and the ethics of clinical research revisitedFranklin G Miller
National Institutes of Health, USA
Am J Bioeth 6:59-61; discussion W42-5. 2006
Is placebo surgery unethical?Sam Horng
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892 1156, USA
N Engl J Med 347:137-9. 2002
The incoherence of determining death by neurological criteria: a commentary on "Controversies in the determination of death", a White Paper by the President's Council on BioethicsFranklin G Miller
Department of Bioethics, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
Kennedy Inst Ethics J 19:185-93. 2009..According to the position of this committee, patients diagnosed with the cessation of brain function are dead, despite the fact that they breathe and circulate blood with the aid of mechanical ventilation...
Principles of early stopping of randomized trials for efficacy: a critique of equipoise and an alternative nonexploitation ethical frameworkDavid Buchanan
Division of Cancer Prevention, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
Kennedy Inst Ethics J 15:161-78. 2005....
The internal morality of medicine: an evolutionary perspectiveF G Miller
Intramural Research Program, Department of Clinical Bioethics, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
J Med Philos 26:581-99. 2001....
Quality-improvement research and informed consentFranklin G Miller
Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
N Engl J Med 358:765-7. 2008
Rethinking the ethics of vital organ donationsFranklin G Miller
Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health, USA
Hastings Cent Rep 38:38-46. 2008..Explicitly jettisoning the rule -- allowing vital organs to be extracted, under certain conditions, from living patients -- is a radical change only at the conceptual level. But it would expand the pools of eligible organ donors...
Ethical considerations in psychopharmacological research involving decisionally impaired subjectsDonald L Rosenstein
National Institute of Mental Health, Building 10, Room 3N242, 10 Center Drive MSC 1276, MD 20892 1276, Bethesda, USA
Psychopharmacology (Berl) 171:92-7. 2003....
When scientists deceive: applying the federal regulationsCollin C O'Neil
Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health, USA
J Law Med Ethics 37:344-50. 2009..To illustrate our interpretation, we apply the conditions to a recent study that used deception to show that subjects judged the same wine as more enjoyable when they believed it had a higher price...
Deception in the pursuit of scienceDavid Wendler
Department of Clinical Bioethics, National Institutes of Health, Bldg 10, Room 1C118, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Arch Intern Med 164:597-600. 2004
Clinical research and the physician-patient relationshipDonna T Chen
Department of Clinical Bioethics, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 1156, USA
Ann Intern Med 138:669-72. 2003..In addition, we suggest how preparation for advising patients about clinical research participation can be incorporated into the medical education process...
Evaluating the therapeutic misconceptionFranklin G Miller
Department of Clinical Bioethics, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
Kennedy Inst Ethics J 16:353-66. 2006..After clarifying the ethical significance of the therapeutic misconception with respect to the decision making of patients, we offer policy recommendations for obtaining informed consent to participation in clinical trials...
Responding to medical pluralism in practice: a principled ethical approachJon C Tilburt
Department of Clinical Bioethics, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
J Am Board Fam Med 20:489-94. 2007..In this way, recognition of medical pluralism can help clinicians enhance patient care in a manner consistent with basic ethical principles...
National Depressive and Manic-Depressive Association consensus statement on the use of placebo in clinical trials of mood disordersDennis S Charney
Division of Intramural Research Programs, National Institute of Mental Health, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 59:262-70. 2002..Research is needed on the ethical conduct of studies to limit risks of medication-free intervals and facilitate poststudy treatment. Patients must fully understand the risks and lack of individualized treatment involved in research...
The state of research ethics: a tribute to John C. FletcherFranklin G Miller
Unit on Clinical Research, Department of Clinical Bioethics, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
J Clin Ethics 16:355-64. 2005
Role of expectations in healthLuana Colloca
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine NCCAM, National Institutes of Health, USA
Curr Opin Psychiatry 24:149-55. 2011..We selected recent laboratory and clinical studies in the field of the placebo effect, with a particular focus on psychiatric disorders...
Enrolling decisionally impaired adults in clinical researchDonna T Chen
National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 1156, USA
Med Care 40:V20-9. 2002....
Ethical aspects of research into the etiology of autismDonna T Chen
Office of Clinical Director, Intramural Research Program, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Ment Retard Dev Disabil Res Rev 9:48-53. 2003....
Money and distorted ethical judgments about research: ethical assessment of the TeGenero TGN1412 trialEzekiel J Emanuel
Department of Clinical Bioethics, The Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892 1156, USA
Am J Bioeth 7:76-81. 2007....
Enrolling the uninsured in clinical trials: an ethical perspectiveChristine Pace
Department of Clinical Bioethics, Warren G Magnuson Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892 1156, USA
Crit Care Med 31:S121-5. 2003..We discuss these competing issues and make recommendations for how investigators can both protect uninsured research participants and provide the uninsured with fair access to research in their recruitment and enrollment strategies...
Ethical framework for the use of sham procedures in clinical trialsSam Horng
Department of Clinical Bioethics, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-1156, USA
Crit Care Med 31:S126-30. 2003....
Ethical issues concerning research in complementary and alternative medicineFranklin G Miller
Department of Clinical Bioethics, Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
JAMA 291:599-604. 2004..In addition, we explore the legitimacy of providing CAM and conventional therapies that have been demonstrated to be effective only by virtue of the placebo effect...
Payment for research participation: a coercive offer?A Wertheimer
Department of Bioethics, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Building 10, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 1156, USA
J Med Ethics 34:389-92. 2008..In this article we analyse the concept of coercion, refute mistaken conceptions of coercion and explain why the offer of payment for research participation is never coercive but in some cases may produce undue inducement...
Is emergency research without initial consent justified?: the consent substitute modelEmily A Largent
National Institutes of Health, 10 Center Dr, Bldg 10, Room 1C118, Bethesda, MD 20892 1156, USA
Arch Intern Med 170:668-74. 2010..Together, these conditions constitute an ethical substitute for informed consent in emergency research-forming the consent substitute model...
A response to commentators on "Sham surgery: an ethical analysis"Franklin G Miller
Department of Clinical Bioethics, National Institutes of Health
Am J Bioeth 3:W36. 2003
Research on medical records without informed consentFranklin G Miller
Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health, USA
J Law Med Ethics 36:560-6. 2008..This article analyzes the scope of these norms and provides an ethical justification for research using personally identifiable medical information without consent...
A normative justification for distinguishing the ethics of clinical research from the ethics of medical carePaul Litton
Department of Clinical Bioethics, National Institutes of Health, USA
J Law Med Ethics 33:566-74. 2005
Facing up to paternalism in research ethicsFranklin G Miller
National Institutes of Health, USA
Hastings Cent Rep 37:24-34. 2007..Paternalism has limits, however. Getting clear on the paternalism of research ethics may mean some kinds of prohibited research should be reassessed...
Research with stored biological samples: what do research participants want?Donna T Chen
Department of Clinical Bioethics, Warren G Magnuson Clinical Center, and National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Arch Intern Med 165:652-5. 2005..Many believe consent for each future use is required to respect individuals. Others worry this approach may block important research...
A curriculum for teaching psychiatric research bioethicsD L Rosenstein
National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-1277, USA
Biol Psychiatry 50:802-8. 2001..Our initial experience with a formal curriculum in psychiatric research bioethics suggests that this educational activity has been both meaningful and relevant for psychiatrists training to be clinical investigators...
Enhancement technologies and professional integrityFranklin G Miller
National Institutes of Health, USA
Am J Bioeth 5:15-7; discussion W4-9. 2005
The ethics of research on enhancement interventionsOri Lev
Department of Bioethics, Warren G Magnuson Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
Kennedy Inst Ethics J 20:101-13. 2010..Instead, like any other clinical research, each proposed enhancement study should be reviewed individually to assess whether it fulfills the ethical requirements that make a clinical study permissible...
Medicare's requirement for research participation as a condition of coverage: is it ethical?Steven D Pearson
Department of Clinical Bioethics, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
JAMA 296:988-91. 2006
Deceptive researchFranklin G Miller
Arch Gen Psychiatry 65:1225-6; author reply 1226. 2008
The dead donor rule and organ transplantationRobert D Truog
Department of Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School and Division of Critical Care Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston, USA
N Engl J Med 359:674-5. 2008
Rethinking risk-benefit assessment for phase I cancer trialsSteven Joffe
Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
J Clin Oncol 24:2987-90. 2006
Placebo research and the spirit of informed consentFranklin G Miller
Psychosom Med 67:678; author reply 678. 2005
Ethical significance of ethics-related empirical researchFranklin G Miller
J Natl Cancer Inst 94:1821-2. 2002
Painful deceptionFranklin G Miller
Science 304:1109-11; author reply 1109-11. 2004
Control group selection in critical care randomized controlled trials evaluating interventional strategies: An ethical assessmentHenry J Silverman
University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Crit Care Med 32:852-7. 2004....
Sham surgery: an ethical analysisFranklin G Miller
National Institutes of Health
Am J Bioeth 3:41-8. 2003....
A plea for pragmatism in clinical research ethicsDavid H Brendel
Harvard Medical School, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA 02478, USA
Am J Bioeth 8:24-31. 2008....
Bench to bedside: mapping the moral terrain of clinical researchSteven Joffe
Hastings Cent Rep 38:30-42. 2008..We need an entirely new conception of clinical research ethics - one that looks to science instead of the doctor-patient relationship...
Communicating the results of clinical research to participants: attitudes, practices, and future directionsDavid I Shalowitz
Bioethics Program, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
PLoS Med 5:e91. 2008
A critique of clinical equipoise. Therapeutic misconception in the ethics of clinical trialsFranklin G Miller
Hastings Cent Rep 33:19-28. 2003..quot;Clinical equipoise" is necessary. But this perspective is flawed. The ethics of research and of therapy are fundamentally different, and clinical equipoise should be abandoned...
The clinician-investigator: unavoidable but manageable tensionHoward Brody
Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
Kennedy Inst Ethics J 13:329-46. 2003..The difference position provides a sound ethical framework within which to manage those tensions, while the similarity position is unsatisfactory because it seeks to deny the existence of the tensions...
Twenty-five years of therapeutic misconceptionFranklin G Miller
Hastings Cent Rep 38:6; author reply 6-7. 2008
Clinical trials and medical care: defining the therapeutic misconceptionGail E Henderson
University of North Carolina at ChapelHill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United Statesof America
PLoS Med 4:e324. 2007
What makes placebo-controlled trials unethical?Franklin G Miller
National Institutes of Health
Am J Bioeth 2:3-9. 2002..Placebo controls are ethically justifiable when they are supported by sound methodological considerations and their use does not expose research participants to excessive risks of harm...
