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Explanatory and pragmatic attitudes in therapeutical trials.
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PMID:  19348976     Owner:  NLM     Status:  PubMed-not-MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
It is the thesis of this paper that most therapeutic trials are inadequately formulated, and this from the earliest stages of their conception. Their inadequacy is basic, in that the trials may be aimed at the solution of one or other of two radically different kinds of problem; the resulting ambiguity affects the definition of the treatments, the assessment of the results, the choice of subjects and the way in which the treatments are compared. It often occurs that one type of approach is ethically less defensible than the other, or may even be ruled out altogether on ethical grounds. We postpone consideration of this aspect of the question until a later section.
Authors:
Daniel Schwartz; Joseph Lellouch
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Journal of clinical epidemiology     Volume:  62     ISSN:  1878-5921     ISO Abbreviation:  J Clin Epidemiol     Publication Date:  2009 May 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2009-04-07     Completed Date:  2009-06-29     Revised Date:  2011-10-11    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  8801383     Medline TA:  J Clin Epidemiol     Country:  United States    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  499-505     Citation Subset:  -    
Affiliation:
Unité de Recherches Statistiques, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Medicale, Villejuif, France.
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J Chronic Dis. 1967 Aug;20(8):637-48   [PMID:  4860352 ]

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