Emergency use of unproven clinical interventions outside clinical trials: ethical considerations

Overview

This document is intended to provide policy-makers, authorities in charge of the prevention and management of a public health emergency, such as ministries of health, national regulatory authorities and national disaster management agencies, health-care workers, ethics committees and others, with:

• an updated version of the ethical framework for use of unproven clinical interventions outside clinical trials during public health emergencies (the MEURI ethical framework),
• general and operational recommendations for implementing the framework and
• answers to questions that stakeholders may raise.

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