Clinical trials: The conflict between the doctors’ financial interests of in recruiting patients and the patients’ best interests in Malaysia

• Main Authors: Yusof, Yuhanif, Halim, Rohizan, Masum, Ahmad
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: R Medicine (General)
• Online Access: http://repo.uum.edu.my/17108/1/12.pdf; http://repo.uum.edu.my/17108/
• Institution: Universiti Utara Malaysia

The Hippocratic and the principle of beneficence require that doctors should always act in the patient’s best interest. However, once the ‘doctor’ puts on the hat of a ‘doctor-investigator’ by involving in clinical trials, the responsibility to safeguard the interests of the patient is no longer a...