Randomization Among The Other Randomization

• Published in: Ethics & human research Vol. 41; no. 5; pp. 35 - 40
• Main Author: Barnbaum, Deborah R.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Hastings Center 01.09.2019
• Subjects: Bias; clinical equipoise; Cohort Studies; Disclosure; human subjects research; Humans; informed consent; Informed Consent - ethics; randomization; randomized clinical trials; Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; Research Subjects; randomized clinical trials; clinical equipoise; informed consent; human subjects research; randomization

A valid informed consent process for a randomized controlled trial requires the disclosure to potential participants that they will be randomized to receive the study intervention or a control intervention. This is a case of randomization within a trial, a type of randomization that has received sig...