Challenges and proposed solutions in making clinical research on COVID-19 ethical: a status quo analysis across German research ethics committees [PDF]
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.
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Young people's views about the purpose and composition of research ethics committees:findings from the PEARL qualitative study [PDF]
BMC Medical Ethics, 2016 BACKGROUND: Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) is a birth cohort study within which the Project to Enhance ALSPAC through Record Linkage (PEARL) was established to enrich the ALSPAC resource through linkage between ALSPAC ...
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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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Rethinking research ethics committees in low- and medium-income countries
Research Ethics Review, 2018 Key historical landmark research malpractice scandals that shocked the international community (Nazi doctors’ experiments, Tuskegee study, Jewish chronic disease experiments, Krugman’s Willowbrook hepatitis study) were the origin of the institution of ...
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Evaluating research ethics committees in Vietnam and Laos: Results of a validated self-assessment tool. [PDF]
PLoS ONEBackgroundThere is an increase in human subject research in developing countries and conducting them in an ethical manner depends on the research ethics oversight in these countries.
Nathan Gabriel Sattah +7 more
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Research Ethics Committees (RECs) and epidemic response in low and middle income countries. [PDF]
Pan Afr Med J, 2018 The recent Ebola and Zika virus epidemics in some parts of Africa and Asia have showcased the porosity in disaster preparedness and response, not only in the affected countries, but on a global scale.
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Ethics approval: responsibilities of journal editors, authors and research ethics committees
The Pan African Medical Journal, 2017 Meaningful progress of medicine depends on research that must ultimately involve human subjects. Obtaining ethical approval therefore, especially in medical sciences, should be a moral reflex for researchers.
Luchuo Engelbert Bain
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Research ethical committees and ethics dumping
Current Medicine Research and Practice, 2022 N A Uvais
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BMC Medical Ethics, 2020 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. However, we know little about the practical relevance of these
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Research Ethics Committees in Africa: Authors' Reply. [PDF]
PLoS Medicine, 2007 Nancy E Kass +12 more
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