임상시험 대상자 모집방법에 관한 법적･윤리적 검토

A clinical trial is a necessary procedure to prevent, treat, and improve a person's disease. However, due to circumstances such as the need to meet specific conditions or the rareness of target disease itself, there are cases in which the registration of clinical trial subjects takes a lot of time and money unexpectedly. The difficulty of enrolling subjects is considered as one of the reasons to stop the clinical trial or increase its cost. Subject registration is targeted at potential subjects who have revealed their willingness to participate in clinical trials through potential target recruitment, and in the end, efficient subject recruitment is necessary for smooth subject registration. Therefore, it is important to find an efficient method of recruiting subjects. On the other hand, the subjects participating in the clinical trial take potential risks, so the safety and welfare of the subjects should be considered as the top priority in the clinical trial. In the sense that it is based on, the subject’s intention to participate in the clinical trial should not be distorted. However, recruitment of subjects through social media, which is emerging as a new method, or recruitment of subjects through specialized subject recruiting companies may be misused. In many cases, wrong methods are used, which are emphasizing financial rewards or spreading misinformation. In order to cope with these problems, the review by the Institutional Review Board needs to be carried out more precisely and rigorously. And there must be mandatory training for the workers of the companies or certification system for the recruitment company.