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Putting contract research organisations on the radar

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Mariëtte van Huijstee  and
Nuria Homedes
Mariëtte van Huijstee
Affiliation:
SOMO (Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, email [email protected]
Nuria Homedes
Affiliation:
University of Texas, School of Public Health, USA
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There is a trend for pharmaceutical companies to contract third parties to conduct the clinical trials that are needed to test their drugs. This trend is referred to as outsourcing, and the companies that carry out the work are called contract research organisations. In addition, clinical trials are increasingly conducted in non-traditional trial regions, which are mainly low-and middle-income countries. This trend is called offshoring. The combination of outsourcing and offshoring poses serious risks for the ethical treatment of participants in clinical trials.

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International Psychiatry , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , May 2012 , pp. 32 - 34
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists 2012

Footnotes

This article is based on a research report with the same title, published by the Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO), Corporate Social and Ethical Research (CSER) and Salud y Farmacos (SyF). It is available from SOMO's website, http://somo.nl/publications-nl/Publication_3615-nl

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