Dr. Roberts works with a team of medical professionals who treat people who are HIV+. Several of his patients have complained about the side effects of one anti-viral drug. A couple of them insisted on taking a break. When they did, their viral loads dropped \u2013 indicating a decrease in the amount of virus in their bodies and, theoretically, an improvement in their health and life expectancy. <\/p>\n
Dr. Roberts would like to test the anecdotal observations. He talks with other team members to see how a protocol might be designed. <\/p>\n
If you were a member of Dr. Robert\u2019s team and would design a research protocol with him \u2013 what questions or concerns should be included in the project? <\/p>\n
When you identify your questions, connect them with broader biomedical ethical principles in the codes for research.<\/p>\n
Example:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Will this be a double-masked trial? Are we scientifically unsure about the comparative benefits of the different anti-viral drug approaches? (This might be connected to principles of beneficence, for example)<\/p>\n How will we know when the trial is definitive? Would it be unethical to treat patients with sub-optimal treatment? How will we understand that the advantages observed are long-term and not short-term? (This might be connected to the obligation to participants’ health and fairness theories- such as egalitarianism).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dr. Roberts works with a team of medical professionals who treat people who are HIV+. Several of his patients have complained about the side effects of one anti-viral drug. A couple of them insisted on taking a break. When they did, their viral loads dropped \u2013 indicating a decrease in the amount of virus in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[21],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/12850"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/12850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=12850"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=12850"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=12850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}