Therapeutic misunderstandings in modern research.

ABSTRACT: Clinical trials play a crucial role in generating evidence about healthcare interventions and improving outcomes for current and future patients. For individual trial participants, however, there are inevitably trade-offs involved in clinical trial participation, given that trials have traditionally been designed to benefit future patient populations rather than to offer personalised care. Failure to understand the distinction between research and clinical care and the likelihood of benefit from participation in clinical trials has been termed the 'therapeutic misconception'. The evolution of the clinical trials landscape, including greater integration of clinical trials into healthcare and development of novel trial methodologies, may reinforce the significance of the therapeutic misconce

SUBMITTER: Heynemann S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10952669 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature