Nursing Law and Ethics

prescription could be prohibitive. Others ma yvalue their life in so far as the yare able to look after their children. Although ...

11.14 Monitoring Ishall now consider how the implementation of clinical governance schemes is to be monitored. The Commission of ...

the case. Dr Stephen Bolsin, a consultant anaesthetist at Bristol Royal Infirmary, spent five years trying to draw attention to ...

`This process gives health professionals the opportunit yto set their own stan- dards of professional practice, conduct and disc ...

Clinical Judgment: A Critical Appraisal,,ed. Engelhardtet al.) D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland. Kitchiner, D. ...

Chapter 12 Clinical Research and Patients A The Legal Perspective Marie Fox The issue of clinical research on human patients pos ...

clinical governance and the increased involvement of the European Union, discussed below. 12.1 Definition of clinical research C ...

12.2 Regulation of clinical research 12.2.1 International declarations The Declaration of Helsinki was promulgated largely as a ...

12.2.2 The criminal law Notwithstanding the considerable discretion thus entrusted to the scientific researcher, it should be no ...

from participation in the study or to withdraw consent to participate at any time without reprisal. After ensuring that the subj ...

Under the Medicines Act 1968 and the Medicines for Human Use Authorisation Etc.) Regulations 1994, before drugs are used in clin ...

`When obtaining informed consent for the research project the physician should be particularly cautious if the subject is in a d ...

is the ideal of medical practice [47]. Oakley suggests that RCTs are ethically problematic since chance allocation may be antith ...

Another contested feature is the extent to which placebos should form part of RCTs. At the time of writing, under UK law patient ...

experiments that are already planned and then to give broader consent for storage and future use for certain types of research. ...

monitoring clinical research. First, there is no requirement for trials undertaken outside the NHS to receive ethics committee a ...

involve the establishment of a trial steering committee which should include at least one of the principal investigators conduct ...

12.3.3 Research fraud and deception A further obstacle to ensuring accountability of researchers is that cases of deception and ...

children is proposed [82]. Guideline 14 of the draft CIOMS guidance [83],Research Involving Children,provides that prior to unde ...

consent against the need for research to advance the knowledge and treatment of mental disorders.' The Convention on Human Right ...