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ArticlePublic health ethics2020

Is There an Ethical Upper Limit on Risks to Study Participants?

Nir Eyal

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Article in Public health ethics, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 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

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Article
  3. The Normative Power of Consent and Limits on Research Risks.Ethical theory and moral practice : an international forum · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Nir EyalCenter for Population-Level Bioethics, Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University and Department of Health Behavior, Society and Policy, Rutgers School of Public Health.

Funding

HIV cure studies: risk, risk perception, and ethicsR01AI114617 · NIAID · RUTGERS BIOMEDICAL/HEALTH SCIENCES-RBHS · PI EYAL, NIR · 2015 to 2018
$3.2M
HIV cure studies: risk, risk perception, and ethicsR56AI114617 · NIAID · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI EYAL, NIR · 2014 to 2014
$528k
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI114617NIAID NIH HHS R56 AI114617
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Are some risks to study participants too much, no matter how valuable the study is for society? This article answers in the negative.

Identifiers

PMID33299471
PMCPMC7700797

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