Jason E Klein and Alan R

question 51

Multiple Choice

Jason E. Klein and Alan R. Fleischman | The Private Practicing Physician-Investigator: Ethical Implications of Clinical Research in the Office Setting
Klein and Fleischman discuss the conflicts of interest in contemporary medical research due to the shift in recent decades from clinical trials based in academic centers to pharmaceutical company-based recruitment of "patient-subjects" directly through private practicing "physician-investigators." They conclude with a number of recommendations to reduce or eliminate these conflicts.
-With the shift of clinical research outside of academic centers, thousands of private physicians have become ___________ while their patients have become patient-subjects.

• A) physician-subjects
• B) physician-investigators
• C) pharmaceutical engineers
• D) patient-investigators.

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Definitions:

Purely Competitive Conditions

A market scenario where numerous small suppliers offer identical products, resulting in no single supplier having any market control.

Marginal Product

The additional output that is produced by adding one more unit of a particular input while keeping other inputs constant.

Minimizing Costs

A strategy or process aimed at reducing expenses in production or operations to increase profitability.

Substitute Resources

Productive inputs that can be used instead of other inputs in the production process; resources for which an increase in the price of one leads to an increase in the demand for the other.