Revising the Declaration of Helsinki: a work in progress

A Journal of Healthcare Ethics & Humanities. Published since 1993 by Forum for Medical Ethics Society.
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ISSN: 0975-5691 (Online); 0974-8466 (Print) RNI Reg No. MAHENG/2016/67188


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1.	Title	Title of document	Revising the Declaration of Helsinki: a work in progress

2.	Creator	Author's name, affiliation, country	Ruth Macklin; Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Avenue, Bronx, NY 10461; US

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4.	Description	Abstract	The World Medical Association (WMA), the organisation that issues the Declaration of Helsinki (DoH), is planning another revision of this influential ethics guidance document. The last revision in 2008 strengthened the guidelines in some respects and weakened them in others. I described some of the changes from the previous version in these pages early in 2009. The 2008 revision strengthened the paragraph that addresses the control group in a randomised controlled trial by significantly limiting the circumstances in which a placebo control is acceptable. The most critical weakening from the previous version is the paragraph that describes post-trial benefits. To this day, these two paragraphs remain contentious, with supporters and critics on both sides.

5.	Publisher	Organizing agency, location	Forum for Medical Ethics Society

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7.	Date	(YYYY-MM-DD)	2016-11-30

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9.	Format	File format	HTML , PDF

10.	Identifier	Uniform Resource Identifier	https://ijme.in/articles/revising-the-declaration-of-helsinki-a-work-in-progress/

11.	Source	Title; vol., no. (year)	Indian Journal of Medical Ethics;: Strengthening the core

12.	Language	English=en	en

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