Community based trials and informed consent in rural north India.
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چکیده
Disease control has increasingly shifted towards large scale, disease specific, public health interventions. The emerging problems of HIV, hepatitis, malaria, typhoid, tuberculosis, childhood pneumonia, and meningitis have made community based trials of interventions a cost effective long term investment for the health of a population. The authors conducted this study to explore the complexities involved in obtaining informed consent to participation in rural north India, and how people there make decisions related to participation in clinical research.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of medical ethics
دوره 30 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2004