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NHS research ethics committees [PDF]

open access: yesBMJ, 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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Exempting low-risk health and medical research from ethics reviews: Comparing Australia, the United Kingdom, the United States and the Netherlands [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Ethics review of research projects involving human subjects [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Multi-disciplinary research ethics review: is it feasible? [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Research Ethics Committees [PDF]

open access: yesBritish Journal of General Practice, 2008
Trials and Tribulations by Saul Miller1 takes the National Research Ethics Service to task for the closure of the Northumberland Research Ethics Committee (REC), but there are compelling reasons behind this decision. The Northumberland closure is part …
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Psychology ethics down under: A survey of student subject pools in Australia [PDF]

open access: yes, 1992
A survey of the 37 psychology departments offering courses accredited by the Australian Psychological Society yielded a 92% response rate. Sixty-eight percent of departments employed students as research subjects, with larger departments being more ...
Daniel D. Reidpath   +2 more
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Local research ethics committees [PDF]

open access: yesBMJ, 1995
Nowadays, it should be obvious to all participating in human research that ethical principles should be followed and that approval of a study by an ethics committee should always be sought. Despite the appalling lessons of the second world war this has not always been the case, and even now examples of unethical research are reported regularly, with ...
openaire   +2 more sources

The National Ethics Committee: a truly valuable asset for clinical trials? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Advances in biomedicine, increased patient autonomy, and higher average life expectancy, have contributed to raising a multitude of questions relating to Clinical Ethics.
Campanozzi, Laura Leontina   +2 more
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Prevalence, characteristics, and publication of discontinued randomized trials. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
IMPORTANCE: The discontinuation of randomized clinical trials (RCTs) raises ethical concerns and often wastes scarce research resources. The epidemiology of discontinued RCTs, however, remains unclear.
Akl, E.A.   +37 more
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Research ethics committees: agents of research policy?

open access: yesHealth Research Policy and Systems, 2005
The purpose of this commentary is to describe the unintended effects ethics committees may have on research and to analyse the regulatory and administrative problems of clinical trials.
Hemminki Elina
doaj   +1 more source

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