Conflicts of interests and its effects on informed content, protection of human subjects in translational medicine / 中华医学科研管理杂志

ABSTRACT

Medicine,law and ethics are closely related to each other.Translational medicine is a research model to promote basic research into clinical application rapidly.Its ultimate goal is to promote development of new drug and method as quickly as possible,to improve the level of clinical diagnostics and treatment for health promotion.But some new challenges we have to face in line with accelerating medical research from lab to bedside.There are some potential risk and ethical issues.Among them,conflicts of interest and its affection on implementation of informed consent and protection of human subjects has not been given sufficient attention.The conflict of interest should be managed allows people to exercise their rights as autonomous agents to make their own informed decisions and deter investigators and institutions from having significant conflicts of interest.