Clinical Equipoise

Clinical equipoise defines the ethical standard for including a patient in a clinical trial.

The standard of ‘clinical equipoise’ is met “if there is genuine uncertainty within the expert medical community – not necessarily on the part of the individual investigator – about the preferred treatment.”
— Freedman, B. (1987) ‘Equipoise and the ethics of clinical research’. The New England Journal of Medicine, 317, (3):141-145.

For more, see the Wikipedia page: Clinical Equipoise.


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