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letter . 1997 May 17;314(7092):1477.
Informed consent in medical research. No one has a monopoly on deciding what is ethical.
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See the article "Informed consent: the intricacies." on page 1059.
See the article "Evaluation of a stroke family care worker: results of a randomised controlled trial." on page 1071.
See the article "Does HIV status influence the outcome of patients admitted to a surgical intensive care unit? A prospective double blind study." on page 1077.
See the article "Informed consent in medical research. Journals should not publish research to which patients have not given fully informed consent--with three exceptions." on page 1107.
See the article "BMJ's present policy (sometimes approving research in which patients have not given fully informed consent) is wholly correct." on page 1111.