Ethical problems of evaluating a new treatment for melioidosis.

Cheng, Allen C; Lowe, Michael; Stephens, Dianne P; Currie, Bart J · BMJ · 2003

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Abstract

When mortality from melioidosis fell sharply after multiple changes in management at an Australian hospital, doctors wanted to identify whether a new drug was responsible. But designing a trial that was ethically acceptable proved impossible

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