If it walks like a duck…: Monitored Emergency Use of Unregistered and Experimental Interventions (MEURI) is research.
| Autor: | Schaefer GO; Centre for Biomedical Ethics, National University Singapore Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Singapore owen_schaefer@nus.edu.sg. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | Journal of medical ethics [J Med Ethics] 2024 Aug 21; Vol. 50 (9), pp. 606-611. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Aug 21. |
| DOI: | 10.1136/jme-2023-109169 |
| Abstrakt: | Monitored Emergency Use of Unregistered and Experimental Interventions (MEURI) is an ethical framework developed by the WHO for using unproven interventions in public health emergencies outside the context of medical research. It is mainly intended for use when medical research would be impracticable, but there is still a need to systematically gather data about unproven interventions. As such, it is designed as something of a middle ground between clinical and research ethical frameworks.However, I argue that MEURI does not truly lie at the intersection of clinical care and research. Due to its intent, structure and oversight requirements, it takes on most of the crucial features of research, to the point that it is best understood as a form of research. As a result, cases where MEURI could practicably be applied should instead make use of existing research frameworks. For those circumstances where research is truly impracticable, a more straightforward oversight system than MEURI is needed. While existing practices of compassionate use have some applicability, proposals to make use of clinical ethics committees to oversee unproven interventions may help achieve the right balance in acting in a patient's best interests when the relevant evidence base is weak. Competing Interests: Competing interests: None declared. (© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2024. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ.) |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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