The ethics of conducting observational tobacco research without providing treatment to people who use tobacco: a case example from South Africa
BMJ Glob Health
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2022 Jul;7(7):e009732.
doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2022-009732.
Authors
Gina Kruse
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3
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Thando Zulu
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4
,
Hloniphile Ngubane
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4
,
Krishna Reddy
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2
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7
,
Mark Siedner
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4
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8
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Nancy A Rigotti
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2
3
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,
Janet Seeley
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,
Nothando Ngwenya
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,
Emily Wong
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Affiliations
1
Tobacco Research and Treatment Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA gkruse@mgh.harvard.edu.
2
Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
3
Division of General Internal Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
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Africa Health Research Institute, Durban, Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa.
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Tobacco Research and Treatment Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
6
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
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Medical Practice Evaluation Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
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Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
9
Mongan Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
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Department of Global Health & Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
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Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Alabama Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
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Contributed equally.
PMID:
35831036
PMCID:
PMC9280873
DOI:
10.1136/bmjgh-2022-009732
No abstract available
Keywords:
Health policies and all other topics.
Publication types
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
MeSH terms
Humans
Nicotiana*
South Africa
Grants and funding
R01 DA050482/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/United States