What do u do if ur patient cheats a drug study ?

[Kobebucsfan]

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If there was a new drug Z study and they were recruiting ppl to participate and under 1 condition: they shouldn't be on drug X that will compromise the study


If your patient been taking Drug X for a while and he does participate because he needs the money, what do u as a Doctor tell him ?

Tell him thats against FDA rules and u could be in trouble?
Withdraw from study?
give him another drug that wont mess with the study ?

 

[TheNsg300]

Seems tricky,,I wud go wit B,,possibly because the incorrect findings of the study may turnout to affect treatment of other patients or result in change of protocols,,

 

[ertugrul]

If he was your patient and you'd known that he was on drug X, you wouldn't recruit him for this study in the first place. However, if you learn it after you recruit him, you need to report the situation to the primary investigator(s) of the study, they may amend the protocol or ask you to withdraw the patient from study.

Giving him another drug is also trick, if study protocol says that "you need xx days wash-out period before recruiting patients on drug z", than you can change his drug and wait for that specific time if feasible.

I don't think it's against FDA, but if you intentionally recruit patients havingexclusion criteria, it's going to be legal trouble & license problem.

Sorry for not being that helpful but in real life things are not that easy.

 

[seminoma]

Withdraw.