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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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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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Journal of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, 2021 In this paper, the evolution of the ethics committees for health research, their history, membership, and function in China and Australia is described.
Hua Cao +4 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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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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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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Multi-disciplinary research ethics review: is it feasible? [PDF]
, 2006 This paper reviews the currently rapid changes in research ethics governance affecting many kinds of social research. Arguments for and against single‐discipline and multidisciplinary research ethics committees will be considered, with examples of how ...
Alderson, Priscilla, Morrow, Virginia
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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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