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ReviewCritical care (London, England)2006

Bench-to-bedside review: human subjects research--are more standards needed?

David T Huang, Mehrnaz Hadian

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Review in Critical care (London, England), 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

David T HuangCRISMA Laboratory, Department of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, 641 Scaife Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA. huangdt@ccm.upmc.edu
Mehrnaz Hadian

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There are many controversial issues surrounding ethics in study design and conduct of human subjects research. In this review we briefly touch on the origin of ethics in clinical research and how the current regulations and standards came into practice. We then discuss current controversies regarding informed consent, conflicts of interest, institutional review boards, and other relevant issues such as innovative procedures and quality improvement projects. The question of whether we need more standards is a very important yet challenging one to which there is no simple answer. We address this question by reviewing and commenting on relevant literature. We conclude that what is needed are not more standards per se, but rather refinement and uniformity of current standards, and their interpretation and application both to protect human subjects and to advance medicine.

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Research SubjectsBiomedical ResearchConflict of InterestEthics Committees, ResearchHistory, 20th CenturyHuman ExperimentationHumansInformed ConsentIntellectual PropertyTotal Quality Management

Identifiers

PMID17184560
PMCPMC1794482

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