Romania plans changes to clinical trials system.

摘要

Romanian doctors have warned new legislation being drawn up by the government could spell an end to clinical trials in the country. The health ministry is drafting a bill which would change the current system of clinical studies under which, it claims, money for the studies goes exclusively to doctors while the hospital expenses of patients in the studies are covered by the state. But doctors say that such a change will leave highly qualified specialists with little incentive to do clinical research. Ovidiu Bedreag, who works at one of the largest hospitals in the country, the County Emergency Hospital in Timisoara, told The Lancet: "It is completely wrong for the health ministry to take aim at whatever money the doctors who run clinical trials get. It will only kill what clinical trials there are in Romania since no doctor would accept working so hard-and clinical trials are hard work-and not get paid reasonably."