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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
13 Pt 2
pubmed:dateCreated
2008-3-25
pubmed:abstractText
The increasing number of established effective therapies for relapsing multiple sclerosis (MS) and emerging consensus for early treatment raise practical concerns and ethical dilemmas for placebo-controlled clinical trials in this disease. An international group of clinicians, ethicists, statisticians, regulators, and representatives from the pharmaceutical industry convened to reconsider prior recommendations regarding the ethics of placebo-controlled trials in MS. The group concluded that placebo-controlled trials can still be done ethically, with restrictions. For patients with relapsing MS for which established effective therapies exist, placebo-controlled trials should only be offered with rigorous informed consent if the subjects refuse to use these treatments, have not responded to them, or if these treatments are not available to them for other reasons (e.g., economics). Suggestions are provided to protect subject autonomy and improve informed consent procedures. Recommendations are tighter than previously suggested for placebo-controlled trials in "resource-restricted" environments where established therapies may not be available. Guidance is also provided on the ethics of alternative trial designs and the balance between study subject burden and risk, scientific rationale and interpretability of trial outcomes.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
1526-632X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
25
pubmed:volume
70
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1134-40
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-4-16
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2008
pubmed:articleTitle
Ethics of placebo-controlled clinical trials in multiple sclerosis: a reassessment.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Neurology, Free University Medical Center in Amsterdam, PO Box 4075, 1007 MB Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ch.polman@vumc.nl
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Practice Guideline, Consensus Development Conference