ACR Meeting Abstracts
Abstract Number: 2002 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2012
Petra C.E. Hissink Muller1, Bahar Yildiz1, Cornelia F. Allaart2, Danielle M.C. Brinkman3, Marion A. J. Van Rossum4, J. Merlijn Van den Berg5, Lisette W.A. Van Suijlekom-Smit6, Rebecca Ten Cate1 and Martine C. de Vries7, 1Pediatric Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, 2Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, 3Pediatric Rheumatology, Rijnland Hospital, Leiderdorp, Netherlands, 4Department of Pediatric Rheumatology and Immunology, Emma Children's Hospital / Academic Medical Center and Reade Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 5Pediatric Rheumatology, Emma Children's Hospital / Academic Medical Centre and Reade Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 6Pediatric Rheumatology, Erasmus MC Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 7Medical Ethics and Health Law, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: It is an ethical requirement for setting up a randomized controlled trial (RCT) that the physician-investigator must have genuine uncertainty about the therapeutic options.…