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Clinical trials: The conflict between the doctors’ financial interests of in recruiting patients and the patients’ best interests in Malaysia

The Hippocratic and the principle of beneficence require that doctors should always act in the patient’s best interest. However, once the ‘doctor’ puts on the hat of a ‘doctor-investigator’ by involving in clinical trials, the responsibility to safeguard the interests of the patient is no longer a...

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Main Authors: Yusof, Yuhanif, Halim, Rohizan, Masum, Ahmad
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Published: 2015
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spelling my.uum.repo.171082016-02-10T02:45:47Z http://repo.uum.edu.my/17108/ Clinical trials: The conflict between the doctors’ financial interests of in recruiting patients and the patients’ best interests in Malaysia Yusof, Yuhanif Halim, Rohizan Masum, Ahmad R Medicine (General) The Hippocratic and the principle of beneficence require that doctors should always act in the patient’s best interest. However, once the ‘doctor’ puts on the hat of a ‘doctor-investigator’ by involving in clinical trials, the responsibility to safeguard the interests of the patient is no longer a priority.This is because the interest or intent of the doctor-investigator is different from that of the doctor who offers medical treatment solely in the best interests of patients.Instead, there are many interests of doctor-investigators, which include financial incentives in return for recruiting patients as research subjects.When there is a conflict between the financial interests of doctors in recruiting patients and patients’ best interests, ethical challenges to the integrity of doctor investigators may arise in making decision which is not bias. Hence, the objective of this paper is to discuss about conflict of interests between the doctor-investigator incentives to recruit and the doctor-investigator’s duty to keep the patients’ best interest.A qualitative methodology has been used in the process of writing this conceptual paper.The findings show that incentives gained by doctor-investigators in return for recruiting patients violate the principle of ethics because of the conflict of interests bearing in mind that the Hippocratic and the principle of beneficence require doctors to act in the patients’ best interest. 2015-08-27 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://repo.uum.edu.my/17108/1/12.pdf Yusof, Yuhanif and Halim, Rohizan and Masum, Ahmad (2015) Clinical trials: The conflict between the doctors’ financial interests of in recruiting patients and the patients’ best interests in Malaysia. In: USM International Conference on Social Sciences 2015 (USM-ICOSS2015), 27th – 28th August 2015, Rainbow Paradise Beach Resort, Penang.
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Clinical trials: The conflict between the doctors’ financial interests of in recruiting patients and the patients’ best interests in Malaysia
description The Hippocratic and the principle of beneficence require that doctors should always act in the patient’s best interest. However, once the ‘doctor’ puts on the hat of a ‘doctor-investigator’ by involving in clinical trials, the responsibility to safeguard the interests of the patient is no longer a priority.This is because the interest or intent of the doctor-investigator is different from that of the doctor who offers medical treatment solely in the best interests of patients.Instead, there are many interests of doctor-investigators, which include financial incentives in return for recruiting patients as research subjects.When there is a conflict between the financial interests of doctors in recruiting patients and patients’ best interests, ethical challenges to the integrity of doctor investigators may arise in making decision which is not bias. Hence, the objective of this paper is to discuss about conflict of interests between the doctor-investigator incentives to recruit and the doctor-investigator’s duty to keep the patients’ best interest.A qualitative methodology has been used in the process of writing this conceptual paper.The findings show that incentives gained by doctor-investigators in return for recruiting patients violate the principle of ethics because of the conflict of interests bearing in mind that the Hippocratic and the principle of beneficence require doctors to act in the patients’ best interest.
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author Yusof, Yuhanif
Halim, Rohizan
Masum, Ahmad
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Halim, Rohizan
Masum, Ahmad
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title Clinical trials: The conflict between the doctors’ financial interests of in recruiting patients and the patients’ best interests in Malaysia
title_short Clinical trials: The conflict between the doctors’ financial interests of in recruiting patients and the patients’ best interests in Malaysia
title_full Clinical trials: The conflict between the doctors’ financial interests of in recruiting patients and the patients’ best interests in Malaysia
title_fullStr Clinical trials: The conflict between the doctors’ financial interests of in recruiting patients and the patients’ best interests in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Clinical trials: The conflict between the doctors’ financial interests of in recruiting patients and the patients’ best interests in Malaysia
title_sort clinical trials: the conflict between the doctors’ financial interests of in recruiting patients and the patients’ best interests in malaysia
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