Department of obstetrics and Gynaecology, Aga Khan University, Stadium Road, PO Box 3500, Karachi 74800, Pakistan
Online published on 30 May, 2012.
Standard of care is defined as reasonable formal treatment and diagnostic process that a physician should follow for a patient with specific symptoms or disease. It can be general or specific. In health settings, care of any standard may be considered as ethical until it does not exploit human rights and poor vulnerable population of any cast, creed or country. The ethics of research on human population is a big challenge. This article focuses on such issues and the minimum standard of care to be followed in human research.
Standard of care, Developing countries, Research participants