A 57-Year-Old Man with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Is Participating

A 57-year-old man with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is participating in a clinical trial evaluating a novel therapeutic agent.  The patient is accompanied by his wife for the initial session.  The research coordinator provides a description of the study and tells the wife he is optimistic that the medication will help patients like her husband.  He then shares that more participants are needed for the study to be successful and asks if she would like to enroll as a healthy control.  In obtaining consent for the wife's participation, which of the following principles is at risk of being violated by the research coordinator?

A) Beneficence
B) Confidentiality
C) Nonmaleficence
D) Veracity
E) Voluntariness

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