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Australian Doctor,  March, 2006  

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By Rebecca Jenkins

IGNORANCE BLISS FOR TRIAL SUBJECTS

SHARING findings with patients in clinical trials may expose participants to unnecessary psychological stress, experts suggest. According to a commentary in Cancer , investigators have an ethical obligation to minimise harm to participants by providing only data that will directly benefit their future care, and by giving them an option to read and discuss the results as they pertain to their own case. Recent ethical discussions have turned to the rights of study participants to learn the results of study findings after the ...

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