Clinical trials during the COVID-19 pandemic: Challenges of putting scientific and ethical principles into practice

Clinical trials during the COVID-19 pandemic: Challenges of putting scientific and ethical principles into practice

Arun Bhatt

Global pandemic of COVID-19 is a serious unmet medical need requiring clinical research into effective therapies. Clinical trials during pandemics of infections face complex challenges of putting scientific and ethical principles into practice. Some of these issues – selection of investigational product and participants, study design, assessment of efficacy and safety, ethics review, informed consent and publication, sample size, and publications – require in-depth consideration in planning and implementation of clinical trials during pandemics.

2020

clinical trial, Ethical, Pandemic, scientific, COVID-19

DOI: 10.4103/picr.PICR_77_20

Perspectives in Clinical Research

Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications

Medicine (General), Medicine