Question

Does freedman’s explanation of equipoise satisfactorily adress the critique made by hellman and hellman?under what conditions would you participate in a trial?

Answer 1

Ans) Clinical equipoise is the assumption that there is not one 'better' intervention present (for either the control or experimental group) during the design of a randomized controlled trial (RCT). A true state of equipoise exists when one has no good basis for a choice between two or more care options.

- Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are becoming increasingly common in environmental health research. Like all studies involving human subjects, environmental health RCTs raise many different ethical issues, ranging from obtaining informed consent, to minimizing risks, to protecting privacy and confidentiality.