## Ethics of placebo-controlled trials in depression Some believe that introducing a placebo control into an antidepressant drug trial means that ill patients are being unnecessarily deprived of treatment. As a result, many clinicians and ethical committees are opposed to the use of such trial met
Ethics of clinical trials — The use of placebo
✍ Scribed by L. Wilhelmsen
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1979
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 375 KB
- Volume
- 16
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0031-6970
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