Ethical conduct of clinical research involving children

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The work Ethical conduct of clinical research involving children represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

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Ethical conduct of clinical research involving children

Statement of responsibility

Marilyn J. Field and Richard E. Behrman, editors ; Committee on Clinical Research Involving Children, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Institute of Medicine

Contributor

• Institute of Medicine (U.S.), Committee on Clinical Research Involving Children
• Institute of Medicine (U.S.), Committee on Clinical Research Involving Children.
• Behrman, Richard E., 1931-
• Institute of Medicine (U.S.), Committee on Clinical Research Involving Children
• Field, Marilyn J., (Marilyn Jane)
• Field, Marilyn J., (Marilyn Jane)
• Behrman, Richard E., 1931-

Subject

• Adolescent
• Biomedical Research -- ethics
• Biomedical and Behavioral Research
• Child
• Comprehension
• Ethics Committees, Research
• Fees and Charges
• Government Regulation
• Human Experimentation
• Human Experimentation -- ethics
• Human Experimentation -- legislation & jurisprudence
• Minors
• Research Subjects
• Research Subjects -- economics
• Risk Assessment
• United States

Language

• eng
• eng

Summary

In recent decades, advances in biomedical research have helped save or lengthen the lives of children around the world. With improved therapies, child and adolescent mortality rates have decreased significantly in the last half century. Despite these advances, pediatricians and others argue that children have not shared equally with adults in biomedical advances. Even though we want children to benefit from the dramatic and accelerating rate of progress in medical care that has been fueled by scientific research, we do not want to place children at risk of being harmed by participating in clinical studies. The Ethical Conduct of Research Involving Children considers the necessities and challenges of this type of research and reviews the ethical and legal standards for conducting it. It also considers problems with the interpretation and application of these standards and conduct, concluding that while children should not be excluded from potentially beneficial clinical studies, some research thatis ethically permissible for adults is not acceptable for children, who usually do not have the legal capacity or maturity to make informed decisions about research participation. The book looks at the need for appropriate pediatric expertise at all stages of the design, review, and conduct of a research project to effectively implement policies to protect children. It argues persuasively that a robust system for protecting human research participants in general is a necessary foundation for protecting child research participants in particular

Cataloging source

DNLM

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

RJ85

LC item number

.E85 2004eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography