Data Safety Monitoring Boards
  • Published: 16 September 2025
  • ISBN: 9780262552745
  • Imprint: MIT Press Academic
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 202
  • RRP: $95.00
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Data Safety Monitoring Boards

A Bioethical Perspective

  • Deborah R. Barnbaum
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A critical and underexplored area of bioethics—ethical issues that emerge from the data monitoring of clinical trials.

A critical and underexplored area of bioethics—ethical issues that emerge from the data monitoring of clinical trials.

Data Safety Monitoring Boards explores ethical issues confronted by data safety monitoring boards, or DSMBs, overseeing large randomized clinical trials. DSMBs meet on a regular basis to ensure that the expected benefits of a study continue to outweigh its risks and that side effects are monitored. They are empowered to recommend to study sponsors that studies be halted if ethical protections fail.

Written by bioethicist Deborah Barnbaum, who has served as a clinical ethicist and patient advocate on several DSMBs for the National Institutes of Health since 2006, this book combines compelling narratives about clinical trials, the ethical quandaries that emerge when overseeing those studies, and the theoretical considerations that guide the practices of DSMBs.
  • Published: 16 September 2025
  • ISBN: 9780262552745
  • Imprint: MIT Press Academic
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 202
  • RRP: $95.00
Categories:

Praise for Data Safety Monitoring Boards

Praise for Barnbaum's previous work:


"The Ethics of Autism provides a serious examination of the moral and ethical issues surrounding autism and Asperger's syndrome. Although there are many books about autism, in the 66 years since the condition was first described none has tackled the ethics of autism head on in the way that Barnbaum does. This book kick-starts the ethical debate that I think we need.” -- The Lancet

Praise for Barnbaum's previous work:


"The Ethics of Autism provides a serious examination of the moral and ethical issues surrounding autism and Asperger's syndrome. Although there are many books about autism, in the 66 years since the condition was first described none has tackled the ethics of autism head on in the way that Barnbaum does. This book kick-starts the ethical debate that I think we need.” -- The Lancet