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Article: Ethical standards of studies involving human subjects.(Correspondence)
- Article from:
- Environmental Health Perspectives
- Article date:
- March 1, 2004
- Author:
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In their letter, Sass and Needleman argue against the regulatory use of data from human subjects on both scientific and ethical grounds. The studies they evaluated were conducted in accordance with the same ethical standards that guide all studies involving human volunteers that are conducted by the federal government. Sass and Needleman claim, however, that these studies were not ethical and should not be used. We would like to address a common concern regarding the ethical conduct of these types of studies.
In a recent publication (Charnley and Patterson 2003), we reported the results of a study in which we sought to answer the question of ethical conduct of ...