Abstract

Ethical considerations in standard medical care and clinical research are underpinnings to quality medicine. Similarly, the placebo-controlled double-blind randomised clinical trial is the gold standard for medical research and fundamental to the development of evidence-based medicine. Researchers and clinicians are challenged by ethical concerns in the informed consent with a need to maximise understanding and minimise therapeutic misconception. This editorial expands on themes raised by Chen et al's article ‘Disclosing the Potential Impact of Placebo Controls in Antidepressant Trials' and serves as an invitation for further submissions to BJPsych Open on ethics, research design and informed consent.

Details

Title
Ethical considerations in placebo-controlled randomised clinical trials
Author
Kaufman, Kenneth R 1 

 Departments of Psychiatry, Neurology and Anesthesiology, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, 125 Paterson Street, Suite #2200, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA. Email: [email protected] 
Pages
e3-e4
Section
Editorial
Publication year
2015
Publication date
Jun 2015
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
e-ISSN
20564724
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2206486043
Copyright
© 2015 This article is published under (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.