The Unintended Consequences of Clinical Trials Regulations

Overview

Journal PLoS Med

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2009 Nov 18

PMID 19918557

Citations 38

Authors

Alex D McMahon

David I Conway

Tom M MacDonald

Gordon T McInnes

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Abstract

Alex McMahon and colleagues critique the International Conference on Harmonisation (ICH) guidance on good clinical practice (GCP), arguing that it is having a disastrous effect on noncommerical randomized clinical trials in Europe.

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