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Should the equipoise of the patient, or that of the doctor, determine whether a patient enters a clinical trial? People asking patients to consent to trials are glossing over the ethical complexities. Choices should be based both on probabilities of events (which experts might know) and on the value that a patient places on those events (which only the patient can know)
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R. J Lilford (2003) studied this question.
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