Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: The ethics of psychopharmacological research in legal minors. | Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health BioMed Central Commentary The ethics of psychopharmacological research in legal minors Jacinta OATant1 and Michael Koelch t2 Open Access Address The Ethox Centre University of Oxford Badenoch Building Old Road Campus Headington Oxford OX3 7LF UK and 2Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Psychotherapy at the University Hospital Ulm Ulm Germany Email Jacinta OATan - Michael Koelch - Corresponding author tEqual contributors Published 8 December 2008 Received 26 August 2008 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2008 2 39 doi 1753-2000-2-39 Accepted 8 December 2008 This article is available from http content 2 1 39 2008 Tan and Koelch licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Research in psychopharmacology for children and adolescents is fraught with ethical problems and tensions. This has practical consequences as it leads to a paucity of the research that is essential to support the treatment of this vulnerable group. In this article we will discuss some of the ethical issues which are relevant to such research and explore their implications for both research and standard care. We suggest that finding a way forward requires a willingness to acknowledge and discuss the inherent conflicts between the ethical principles involved. Furthermore in order to facilitate more ethically sound psychopharmacology research in children and adolescents we suggest more ethical analysis empirical ethics research and ethics input built into psychopharmacological research design. Introduction It is the duty of the physician in medical research to protect the life health privacy and
