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British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 2021 Research Ethics Committees (RECs)—or Institutional Review Boards (IRBs), as they are known in the US—were created about 50 years ago to independently assess the ethical acceptability of research projects involving human subjects, their fundamental role ...
Silvia Tusino, M. Furfaro
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HRB Open Research, 2020 The surge of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) research studies involving human participants in response to the pandemic has meant that research ethics committees across the world have been challenged to adapt their processes to meet demand while ...
Aileen Sheehy +2 more
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BMC Medical Ethics, 2021 Background The last few decades have seen the rising global acknowledgment of the importance of ethics in the conduct of health research. But research ethics committees or institutional review boards (IRBs) have also been criticized for being barriers to
G. Lasco +2 more
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Reforming research ethics committees [PDF]
BMJ, 2005 For the first 25 years of their existence in the United Kingdom research ethics committees were left more or less in peace by the Department of Health. Since the publication of the “red book” in 1991,1 however, they have undergone a continual process of radical change, from the introduction of multicentre research ethics committees in 1997, through ...
Ashcroft, RE, Newson, AJ, Benn, PMW
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Assessment of the Operational Characteristics of Research Ethics Committees in Ghana
Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, 2021 There were eighteen Research Ethics Committees (RECs) operating in Ghana as of December 2019 but no empirical assessment of their operational characteristics had been conducted.
Samuel Asiedu Owusu +5 more
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NHS research ethics committees [PDF]
BMJ, 2007 National Health Service research ethics committees exist to ensure that research performed within the NHS complies with recognised ethical standards and to protect the rights, safety, and dignity of all actual or potential participants. In the past decade the operation of research ethics committees has come under, and continues to come under, close ...
Louise, Robinson +2 more
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BMC Medical Ethics, 2021 Background In the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, the biomedical research community’s attempt to focus the attention on fighting COVID-19, led to several challenges within the field of research ethics.
Alice Faust +5 more
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Exempting low-risk health and medical research from ethics reviews: Comparing Australia, the United Kingdom, the United States and the Netherlands [PDF]
, 2020 Background: Disproportionate regulation of health and medical research contributes to research waste. Better understanding of exemptions of research from ethics review in different jurisdictions may help to guide modification of review processes and ...
Glasziou, Paul +4 more
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The role of research ethics committees: Friend or foe in educational research? An exploratory study
British Educational Research Journal, 2020 Ethics committees have an important role to play in ensuring ethical standards (e.g. BERA, ESRC, RCUK recommendations) are met by educational researchers. Balancing obligations to participants, society, institutions and the researchers themselves is not,
Carol Brown, J. Spiro, S. Quinton
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Ethics review of research projects involving human subjects [PDF]
, 2002 Maltreatment of subjects has led to the introduction of an ethics review process for research involving humans. There is a feeling that the bureaucratization of the process is too restrictive and that it may be hampering research.
Olivier, Steve
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