Article is about the things that makes a clinical research on human beings ethical. Most of the US researchers, bioethicists, and institutional review board members often offer that the informed consent is ethical in the research involving human subjects. In most of the cases informed consent is necessary but not for all cases. Most of the controversies in clinical research is the ethics of subject selection, appropriate risk-benefit ratios and the value of research to society. It is important to have a frame work that contains all the applicable ethical considerations for evaluating clinical studies.
This article describes the 7 ethical requirements that provided by synthesizing traditional codes, declarations and relevant literature. …show more content…
The clinical research should be valuable, that is it should evaluate a diagnostic intervention that leads to improvements in health or well-being. The two fundamental reasons that social, scientific or clinical value should be ethical requirement for the responsible use of finite resources and avoidance of exploitation. To be ethical, valuable research must be conducted in a methodologically rigorous manner. The subject should be selected fairly. The subject selection requires the scientific goals of the study. It is important to recognize that subject selection can affect the risk and benefits of the study. Clinical research involves drugs, devices and procedures that has limited knowledge. The purpose of informed consent is twofold, one to ensure that individuals control whether or not they enrol in clinical research and the other to participate only when the research is consistent with their values, interest and preferences. The ethical requirement for clinical research do not end when individuals either sign the consent form and are enrolled or refuse