Question

Placebo studies.

What are the major arguments of the proponents and opponents of this development?

What ethical principles are either validated or violated by this development?

What Code provisions or interpretative statements are either validated or violated by this development?

What are the potential outcomes of this innovation for patients, the health care system, costs of health care and health providers?

How will nursing practice be impacted by this development by 2025 if it is allowed to proceed?

What ethical challenges will nurses face because of this development of placebo studies

Answer 1

2. Placebo studies are field of experimental and observational drug studies done on human subjects to evaluate the efficacy of drugs or treatment methods. Placebo is a drug that does not contain active drug but still has therapeutic effects.

These developments have various ethical debates connected to its use. Ethics to use placebo is validated by considering informing patient while its administration. In situations where the effect of drug is to be evaluated the patient at times have to be kept uninformed or blinded from the treatment drug but the placebo ethics contradicts this concept. In clinical trials use of placebo is done by double blinding where patient is informed they may be given placebo but they received it or not is not known. Here the ethics does not contradict and use of placebo is validated.

Hence, it may be stated that placebo development has brought with it ethical considerations that is to be guided and followed appropriately.

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