Telling parents all relevant details might reduce recruitment of children to trials
BMJPublished 10 August 1996Open access
Terence Stephenson, Damilola Walker
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Patients in clinical trials have “the right to know all relevant details about the situation in which they find themselves” but often such equipoise does not exist because the investigators suspect that one treatment is superior but a randomised controlled trial is still necessary.
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