Doctors should disclose trial payments

Doctors are often paid to recruit patients to clinical trials sponsored by pharmaceutical companies, yet such payments are often not disclosed to the patients. Rao and Cassia (p 36) argue that this practice is unethical and damages efforts to involve patients more fully in clinical trials. They believe that patients should be treated as equal partners by doctors making full and frank disclosure of payments that trial sponsors make to them for recruiting their patients.


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Ethics of undisclosed payments to doctors recruiting patients in clinical trials
Jammi N Rao and L J Sant Cassia
BMJ 2002 325: 36-37. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]

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