Assessing ethics of trials in systematic reviews
BMJPublished 22 April 2004Open access
Michael A. Weingarten, Mical Paul, Leonard Leibovici
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It is proposed that systematic reviews of experimental clinical research on humans should also include information on the ethical standards of the trials, and to encourage reviewers to identify those occasional studies that were so unethical that there may be doubts about the morality of using the results.
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Routine assessment may improve ethical standards and overall quality of trials
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