Critical and Comprehensive Ethical Analysis on Pragmatic Randomized
Controlled Trials
- Soaad Hossain
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Abstract
The interest of pragmatic randomized controlled trials continues to
increase as they are much better suited for studies of how to get
medical and health services out into wider practice. However, despite
the advantage that such trials have, there are several ethical issues
and medical ethics issues that persist with the trial. The ethical and
medical ethics issues involve research-practice distinction, consent,
disclosure, vulnerable populations, oversight, ethical principles,
ethical framework, regulatory frameworks, and conflicts of interest.
Through performing an elaborate literature review and analyzing claims
and arguments made within the literature, we will provide a critical and
comprehensive ethical analysis on pragmatic randomized controlled
trials, and we will begin the discussion on conflicts of interest in
pragmatic RCTs, arguing that conflicts of interest occur in pragmatic
RCTs.