A special concern when conducting research using terminally ill cancer patients as subjects is
a. an inability to randomly assign subjects to study groups.
b. an increased risk of harm with decreased benefits.
c. difficulty enlisting subjects for participation in the study.
d. poor control of extraneous variables.
ANS: B
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