Most pediatric research can be approved by an institutional review board (IRB) if it poses only minimal risk, offers the prospect of direct benefit, or yields vitally important generalizable information about the participants’ condition. When a pedia…
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“Under what conditions is participation of children in research ethically acceptable?”
This was the question the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research faced in 1974 when it began its delibera…