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Research ethics
Ambiguous articles in new EU Regulation may lead to exploitation of vulnerable research subjects
- Correspondence to Dr Anna Westra, Department of Medical Ethics and Philosophy of Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, P.O. Box 2040, Rotterdam 3000CA, The Netherlands; a.e.westra{at}lumc.nl
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Ambiguous articles in new EU Regulation may lead to exploitation of vulnerable research subjects
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- Received May 13, 2015
- Revised November 9, 2015
- Accepted December 3, 2015
- First published January 4, 2016.
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February 25, 2016
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