Ethical approval for operational research

Applying for ethical approval for research in the United Kingdom.

Do research ethics committees identify process errors in applications for ethical approval?

We analysed research ethics committee (REC) letters. We found that RECs frequently identify process errors in applications from researchers that are not deemed "favourable" at first review. Errors include procedural violations (identified in 74% of all applications), missing information (68%), slip-ups (44%) and discrepancies (25%). Important questions arise about why the level of error identif...

An introduction to research for primary dental care clinicians part 4: stage 6a. Obtaining ethical approval.

Ethical approval for health research in central and eastern Europe: an international survey.

UNLABELLED Research ethics committees in central and eastern Europe are increasing in importance as institutions in this region host a growing and more diverse range and volume of health-related research, with funding from an increasingly wide variety of sources. AIM To describe the arrangements for ethical supervision of research in eleven countries of central and eastern Europe, so as to id...

Failure to report ethical approval in child health research: review of published papers.

the study, analysed and interpreted the data, and prepared the manuscript; he will act as guarantor for the paper. SHV, MAW, GJF, AHB, and JOA assisted with the interpretation and presentation of the paper. Fahmida Tofail supervised data collection, and Mohammed Ali helped with computer programming. Charles Stephensen, Grace Marquis, Nalini Sathiakumar, and Douglas Passaro helped in editing and...