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Is best interests a relevant decision making standard for enrolling non-capacitated subjects into clinical research?
- Correspondence to Dr Jeffrey T Berger, Associate Professor of Medicine, Stony Brook University School of Medicine, Director of Clinical Ethics and Chief Section of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, Winthrop University Hospital, 222 Station Plaza North, Suite 518, Mineola NY 11501, USA; jberger{at}winthrop.org
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Is best interests a relevant decision making standard for enrolling non-capacitated subjects into clinical research?
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- Received May 4, 2010
- Revised August 30, 2010
- Accepted September 2, 2010
- First published October 15, 2010.
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December 12, 2010
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