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Question 1: How has evidence-based research influenced health care research? Why is it important in the health care industry?

• Evidence based research has helped influence healthcare by providing proof and bringing forward evidence of violating the right to know for voluntary research participants. Take the Tuskegee Syphilis study, the researchers never informed their participants that there was a cure for syphilis, they had other physicians and government agency involved with not informing these men. These men whom most of them died due to syphilis were basically tortured for over 30 years. the researchers also affected these men's families, how? Since the men were not treated with medication they then passed the VD onto their partners, their partners then passed it onto their children through childbirth. This was done knowingly by the physicians, government and researchers involved. According to Heintzelman, C. (2003):
• "National Research Act, passed in 1974, mandated that all federally funded proposed research with human subjects be approved by an institutional review board (IRB). By 1992, final payments of approximately $40,000 were made to survivors under an agreement settling the class action lawsuit brought on behalf of the Tuskegee Study subjects. President Clinton publicly apologized on behalf of the federal government to the handful of study survivors in April 1997."