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Year |
2002 |
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Question Number |
256 |
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Category |
Medical-Legal |
Question
The 2000 Declaration of Helsinki, as adopted by the World Health Organization, states that research protocols defining the efficacy or safety of a new drug or treatment protocol should use human control groups who receive
1) no treatment
2) placebo treatment
3) the best current treatment
4) competitive new treatments
5) historical treatment protocols
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Preferred Response: 3
This paper was published as an organizational position paper to demonstrate to the legal and lay community the ethical stance of our field. If you do not understand the moral mandate of giving best known therapy as control please read the book Bad Blood concerning the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiments.
Reference: Burstein AH; Update on human rights issues in clinical research. J Bone Joint Surg Am 2001; 83: 161-163