Therapeutic misunderstandings in modern research

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Clinical trials play a crucial role in generating evidence about healthcare interventions and improving outcomes for current and future patients. For individual trial participants, however, there are inevitably trade-offs involved in clinical trial participation, given that trials have traditionally been designed to benefit future patient populations rather than to offer personalised care. Failure to understand the distinction between research and clinical care and the likelihood of benefit from participation in clinical trials has been termed the 'therapeutic misconception'. The evolution of the clinical trials landscape, including greater integration of clinical trials into healthcare and development of novel trial methodologies, may reinforce the significance of the therapeutic misconception and other forms of misunderstanding while at the same time (paradoxically) challenging its salience. Using cancer clinical trials as an exemplar, we describe how methodological changes in early- and late-phase clinical trial designs, as well as changes in the design and delivery of healthcare, impact upon the therapeutic misconception. We suggest that this provides an impetus to re-examine the ethics of clinical research, particularly in relation to trial access, participant selection, communication and consent, and role delineation.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:38

Enthalten in:

Bioethics - 38(2024), 2 vom: 21. Feb., Seite 138-152

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Heynemann, Sarah [VerfasserIn]
Lipworth, Wendy [VerfasserIn]
McLachlan, Sue-Anne [VerfasserIn]
Philip, Jennifer [VerfasserIn]
John, Tom [VerfasserIn]
Kerridge, Ian [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Adaptive clinical trial
Bayes theorem
Clinical trials
Informed consent
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research ethics
Therapeutic misconception

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Date Completed 15.01.2024

Date Revised 22.03.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1111/bioe.13241

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM366063456