@article{3091686, title = "Ethical dilemmas encountered during clinical drug trials", author = "Daikos, GK", journal = "International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents", year = "2004", volume = "24", number = "1", pages = "24-31", publisher = "ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV", issn = "0924-8579", doi = "10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2004.03.004", keywords = "ethics; clinical trials; placebo; active controls", abstract = "Ethical standards have a basis in antiquity and changes in practice need to be measured by moral considerations that are slower to change. This paper considers present day ethical problems in clinical trials-especially in infection, conflict of interest, financing of scientific studies and publishing (or non-publishing) of the results. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. and the International Society of Chemotherapy. All rights reserved." }