Patients' consent should have been sought

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EDITOR,—It is ironic that a study in which informed consent was not sought1 should be published in the same issue as an editorial by Richard Smith calling for action on misconduct in research.2 The study falls well short of good clinical research practice, which is a requirement in trials sponsored by the pharmaceutical industry.3 The hospital ethics committee was surely at fault in allowing the research to proceed in contravention of the Nuremberg Code. In her commentary Claire Foster addresses …