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A national study of ethics committees.
Conceived as a solution to clinical dilemmas, and now required by organizations for hospital accreditation, ethics committees have been subject only to small-scale studies. The wide use of ethics committees and the diverse roles they have played compel study. In 1999 the University of Pennsylvania Ethics Committee Research Group (ECRG) completed the first national survey of the presence, compos...
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متن کاملThe role of local research ethics committees.
audit works we might expect an improvement when comparing 1990 with the 1987 report. Direct comparison is often difficult and infrequently made by the authors. Necropsy rates have risen from 35% to 47%, although necropsy reports were considered to be poor in 25% of cases and reached the right doctors in only 75%. The proportion of patients examined by a consultant surgeon before operation did n...
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Ethics committee and ethics consultants are among the more interesting phenomena associated with bioethics. Although in some respects both reach back to the ancient origins of medical ethics, in other ways they are reflections of a ‘postmodern’ society that seeks moral resolutions while remaining agnostic about substantive moral absolutes. In the present article I shall describe the history of ...
متن کاملResponses by four Local Research Ethics Committees to submitted proposals.
BACKGROUND There is relatively little research concerning the processes whereby Local Research Ethics Committees discharge their responsibilities towards society, potential participants and investigators. OBJECTIVES To examine the criteria used by LRECs in arriving at their decisions concerning approval of research protocols through an analysis of letters sent to investigators. DESIGN Four ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1989
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.298.6675.747-e