Asked by Elizabeth Cavanah on Sep 26, 2024

Clinical Equipoise is:

A) a term denoting the fact that of two or more treatment options, no one of them has been established clearly superior to another.
B) a rare disease.
C) a specific type of Phase I Clinical Trial.
D) when physicians clearly recognize that one type of therapy is vastly superior to alternative therapies.

Clinical Equipoise

The ethical principle in clinical research that requires genuine uncertainty within the expert medical community regarding the comparative therapeutic merits of each arm in a trial.

Treatment Options

Various medical interventions available for diagnosing, managing, or curing diseases or injuries.

  • Identify the prerequisites for surmounting the ethical challenges inherent in randomized clinical trials.