TY - JOUR TI - Ethical dilemmas encountered during clinical drug trials AU - Daikos, GK JO - International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents PY - 2004 VL - 24 TODO - 1 SP - 24-31 PB - ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV SN - 0924-8579 TODO - 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2004.03.004 TODO - ethics; clinical trials; placebo; active controls TODO - 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. ER -