BACKGROUND Countries are increasingly devoting significant resources to creating or strengthening research ethics committees, but there has been insufficient attention to assessing whether these committees are actually improving the protection of human research participants. DISCUSSION Research ethics committees face numerous obstacles to achieving their goal of improving research participant...

On 1 May 2004 research ethics committees became legally accountable to a new government body, the United Kingdom Ethics Committee Authority. This marks the end of the self regulation of research ethics. This paper describes how this change in research ethics committee status has come about and explores the implications for research subjects, researchers, institutions, and for regulation of rese...

OBJECTIVE To describe the state of research ethics policies and practices in health research institutions in sub-Saharan African countries. DESIGN A structured questionnaire was used to solicit information on research ethics from health research institutions. SETTING Forty-two sub-Saharan African countries. PARTICIPANTS Key informants from the health research institutions. MAIN OUTCOME ...

Professional codes of ethics are social contracts among members of a professional group, which aim to instigate, encourage and nurture ethical behaviour and prevent professional misconduct, including research and publication. Despite the existence of codes of ethics, research misconduct remains a serious problem. A survey of codes of ethics from 795 professional organizations from the Illinois ...

preservation of dignity is frequently emphasized as a basic patient’s right in national and international nursing codes of ethics and is indeed the essence and core of nursing care. it is therefore essential to explore the concept based on patients’ lived experiences in order to maintain and respect their dignity and consequently improve the quality of health services and patient satisfaction. ...

Background: Designing a comprehensive model for verified relationships based on the actual tested data can help to better understand and explain the factors affecting research misconduct. The purpose of this study is to validate the model for factors affecting research misconduct in Iranian medical research. Method: This is a descriptive correlational study. The statistical population consiste...