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Interpretation of the Subjects' Condition Requirement: A Legal Perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Seema Shah  and
David Wendler
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Clinical research with children generates special ethical concern, raising the need for additional protections beyond those for research with competent adults. Most guidelines permit research with children when it offers a prospect of direct benefit, or poses minimal risk. Unlike many other guidelines, the U.S. federal regulations also allow institutional review boards (IRBs) to approve pediatric research that does not offer a prospect of direct benefit when the risks are no greater than a minor increase over minimal risk. To approve research in this category, IRBs must find that two additional conditions obtain:

1). The intervention or procedure presents experiences to subjects that are reasonably commensurate with those inherent in their actual or expected medical, dental, psychological, social, or educational situations; and 2). The intervention or procedure is likely to yield generalizable knowledge about the subjects disorder or condition which is of vital importance for the understanding or amelioration of the subjects disorder or condition.

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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 38 , Issue 2 , Summer 2010 , pp. 365 - 373
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2010

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