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10 June 2016Asia-PacificMaría del Pilar López and Esteban Monge

Clinical trials in Costa Rica: protecting patient privacy

After years of prohibition on carrying out clinical trials in Costa Rica, this scientific practice was allowed again in the country when Biomedical Research Law No. 9234 was implemented in 2014. Regulations for this law were enacted in 2015 by means of Executive Decree No. 39061-S and were subsequently amended by Executive Decree No. 39533-S in 2016.

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