ArticleBMC medical ethics2003
The unique ethical challenges of conducting research in the rehabilitation medicine population.
Article in BMC medical ethics, 2003. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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- Central Recruitment: A process for engaging and recruiting individuals with spinal cord injury/disease in research at Toronto Rehabilitation Institute.The journal of spinal cord medicine · 2021Article
- Indigenous traumatic brain injury research: responding to recruitment challenges in the hospital environment.BMC medical research methodology · 2019Article
- Overcoming practical challenges to conducting clinical research in the inpatient stroke rehabilitation setting.Topics in stroke rehabilitation · 2015Article
- Ethics in pharmacologic research in the child with a disability.Paediatric drugs · 2015Review
- Grief, Anger, and Relationality: The Impact of a Research-Based Theater Intervention on Emotion Work Practices in Brain Injury Rehabilitation.Evaluation review · 2014Article
- Improving client-centered brain injury rehabilitation through research-based theater.Qualitative health research · 2012Article
- Competing for patients: an ethical framework for recruiting patients with brain tumors into clinical trials.Journal of neuro-oncology · 2011Article
- Access, Utilization, and Implementation of Research Among Rehabilitation Nurses: A Qualitative Study.Rehabilitation nursing : the official journal of the Association of Rehabilitation NursesArticle
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Abstract
backgroundThe broad topic of research ethics is one which has been relatively well-investigated and discussed. Unique ethical issues have been identified for such populations as pediatrics, where the issues of consent and assent have received much attention, and obstetrics, with concerns such as the potential for research to cause harm to the fetus. However, little has been written about ethical concerns which are relatively unique to the population of patients seen by the practitioner of rehabilitation medicine. DISCUSSION: This paper reviews unique ethical concerns in conducting research in this population, including decision-making capacity, communication, the potential for subject overuse, the timing of recruitment, hope for a cure and therapeutic misconception and the nature of the health care provider-research subject relationship. SUMMARY: Researchers in the area of rehabilitation medicine should be aware of some of the unique ethical challenges posed by this patient population and should take steps to address any potential concerns in order to optimize subject safety and ensure that studies meet current ethical guidelines and standards.
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