Which Benefits Are Mentioned Most Often in Drug Development Publications?

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The aim was to identify theoretically expected as well as actually reported benefits from drug development and the importance of individual patient benefits compared to the collective benefits to society in general.

Background

Ethical guidelines require that clinical research involving humans offer the potential for benefit. A number of characteristics can be applied to define research benefit. Often benefit is categorized as being either direct or indirect. Indirect benefits can involve collective benefits for society rather than any benefits to the trial patient or subject. The purpose of this review was to examine which potential individual and societal benefits were mentioned as being expected in publications from government experts and which were mentioned in

SUBMITTER: Struver V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5717289 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature