Are noninferiority studies ethically inferior?

Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2018 Jun 15;75(12):911-914. doi: 10.2146/ajhp170437.

Authors

Mark A Graber¹, John Ely², Brett A Faine^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA.
² Department of Family Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA.
³ University of Iowa College of Pharmacy, Iowa City, IA brett-faine@uiowa.edu.
⁴ Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA. brett-faine@uiowa.edu.

PMID: 29880526
DOI: 10.2146/ajhp170437

No abstract available

Keywords: clinical trials; ethics; noninferiority.

MeSH terms

Equivalence Trials as Topic*
Ethics, Pharmacy*
Humans
Pharmaceutical Preparations / standards
Research Design / standards
Treatment Outcome

Substances

Pharmaceutical Preparations