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Differences on display on US informed-consent rules
Was it enough for doctors to tell the parents of extremely premature infants that there was “no additional risk” to their babies if they enrolled them in a randomized trial? One treatment group, in which the preemies were maintained with higher blood oxygen, risked eye damage. The other kept the babies at lower oxygen levels, risking brain damage and perhaps death. Both were within the range of care that the babies would have received anyway.
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