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Regardless of the prevailing justification for a study or intervention in which individual consent is not sought and a duty of participation is implied, researchers and public health authorities do not have carte blanche to compromise individual interests where they conflict with public health and wellbeing.
Moreover, informed consent would be a necessary but not sufficient requirement for ethical approval of an experimental human volunteer study, since, in the absence of a demonstrably favourable risk-benefit ratio, achieving informed consent would, of itself, not provide ethical justification for a study.
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The results of the present study provide justification for a phase IIb study combining CF101 with MTX treatment in a population of RA patients.
It was designed as an initial study in order to explore the feasibility and justification for a more extensive study of autoimmunity in the Libby population.
We hypothesized that homogeneity among the complaints might provide justification for a cross-sectional study of water customers; alternatively if we could not identify homogeneity, this might indicate the lack of a common cause, reducing the pressure for further investigation.
This study provides important justification for studies of immunotherapeutic studies in patients with early/minimal/no evidence of disease.
It does, however, provide a justification for a range of studies addressing epigenetic responses to child abuse and their mediating role with later phenotypic outcomes.
About 84.6% were conducted using a Markov model based on data from clinical trials and 15.3% were analyzed by other economic or cost models; 84.6% reported sensitivity analysis, 11 studies (84.6%) clearly described a justification for selecting the study design, and only 15.3% noted study limitations.
Our results provide a justification for further study of these herbal extracts in neurodegenerative animal models to assess their safety and effectiveness as a basis for subsequent clinical trials.
This suggests that further studies in different production systems are required to enable informed choices and tailored decisions when feeding lactating cows with specific dietary fat supplements, hence the justification for our study in a typical Australian pasture-based dairy production system.
These preliminary findings provide justification for a larger prospective epidemiological study to examine in more detail the possibility that obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome is a risk factor for gout.
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