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BMJ Open, 2022 Objective Informed consent (IC) is a central ethical and legal requirement for clinical research that aims to protect the autonomy of participants. To enable an autonomous decision and valid consent, adequate understanding must be ensured.
Joerg Hasford, Anne Wisgalla
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The Challenges of Big Data for Research Ethics Committees: A Qualitative Swiss Study
Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, 2021 Big data trends in health research challenge the oversight mechanism of the Research Ethics Committees (RECs). The traditional standards of research quality and the mandate of RECs illuminate deficits in facing the computational complexity ...
Agata Ferretti +4 more
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Challenges of hospital ethics committees: a phenomenological study
Journal of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, 2021 Medical ethics committees play an important role in examining and resolving ethical problems in hospitals by developing ethical guidelines and making ethical decisions. This study aimed at investigating the challenges that these committees typically face.
Samira Raoofi +4 more
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Experiences from coordinating research after the 2011 terrorist attacks in Norway [PDF]
European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 2014 This brief report presents some of the lessons learned from coordinating research in which people directly affected by terrorist attacks in Norway in 2011 are taking part.
Nils O. Refsdal
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Australasian Journal on Ageing, 2021 Research involving people with dementia is vital to appropriately inform policy and practice decisions affecting this population. As dementia‐care researchers, we frequently advocate to Human Research Ethics Committees for the right of people with ...
Claire M. C. O’Connor +14 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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Taking stock of the availability and functions of National Ethics Committees worldwide
BMC Medical Ethics, 2021 National Ethics Committees (NECs) offer important oversight and guidance functions and facilitate public debate on bioethical issues. In an increasingly globalized world where technological advances, multi-national research collaborations, and pandemics ...
P. Hummel, T. Adam, A. Reis, K. Littler
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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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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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