Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-4rdpn Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-02T21:27:17.516Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Letter to the Editor

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Howard Mann ,
Benjamin Djulbegovic  and
Paul Gold
Howard Mann
Affiliation:
University of Utah
Benjamin Djulbegovic
Affiliation:
University of South Florida
Paul Gold
Affiliation:
Medical University of South Carolina
Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.
Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Letter
Information
Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 31 , Issue 1 , Spring 2003 , pp. 5 - 6
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2003

References

Sackett, D.L., “Uncertainty about Clinical Equipoise,” Canadian Medical Association Journal, 164, no. 13 (2001): 1831–32.Google Scholar
Freedman, B., “Equipoise and the Ethics of Clinical Research,” N. Engl. J. Med., 317, no. 3 (1987): 141–45.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Elwyn, G. et al., “Decision Analysis in Patient Care,” Lancet, 358, no. 9281 (2001): 571–74.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lilford, R. and Djulbegovic, B., “Equipoise and Uncertainty Principle Are Not Mutually Exclusive,” British Medical Journal, 322 (2001): 795.Google Scholar
Ashcroft, R., “Giving Medicine a Fair Trial. Trials Should Not Second Guess What Patients Want,” British Medical Journal, 320, no. 7251 (2000): 1686.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Silverman, W.A. and Chalmers, I., “Casting and Drawing Lots: A Time Honoured Way of Dealing with Uncertainty and Ensuring Fairness,” British Medical Journal, 323 (2001): 1467–68.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Djulbegovic, B., “Acknowledgment about Uncertainty: A Fundamental Means to Ensure Scientific and Ethical Validity in Research,” Current Oncology Reports, 3, no. 5 (2001): 389–95.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Colditz, G., Miller, J., and Mosteller, F., “How Study Design Affects Outcomes in Comparisons of Therapy. I: Medical,” Statistics in Medicine, 8 (1989): 441–54; Gilbert, J., McPeek, B., and Mosteller, F., “Statistics and Ethics in Surgery and Anesthesia,” Science, 198 (1977): 684–89; Machin, D. et al., “Thirty Years of Medical Research Council Randomized Trials in Solid Tumors,” Clinical Oncology, 9 (1997): 100–14; Djulbegovic, B. et al., “The Uncertainty Principle and Industry-Sponsored Research,” Lancet, 356 (2000): 635–38.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Vist, G., Hagen, K., and Oxman, A., “How Do the Outcomes of Patients Who Participate in Randomised Controlled Trials Compare with Those of Similar Patients Who Do Not Participate?,” The TROUT Group. 9th Annual Cochrane Colloquium Abstracts, Lyon, October 2001.Google Scholar