To learn whether ethics committees reviewing community-based participatory research concentrate on the protection of communities, in addition to individual participants, data from 15 sites were analyzed. Eighty-two ethics committee concerns related to consent (35%), protocol procedures (49%), data collection (17%), and HIPAA (6%) were identified. Concerns generally involved individual level sub...

OBJECTIVES To show that a Local Research Ethics Committee (LREC) can carry out an audit of ethical standards in research. To find out if a researcher met certain ethical standards in recruiting subjects for clinical trials and in obtaining their consent. DESIGN Postal questionnaire. SETTING Clinical research by one doctor during one year. SUBJECTS Eleven patients entered in clinical trial...

ethical misconduct is not a new issue in the history of science and literature. however, ethical misconducts in science have grown considerably in the modern era which is due to emphasis on the scientific proliferation in research institutes and gauging scientists according to their publications. in the current case series, several misconducts occurring over the previous years in mashhad univer...

In Section 2.2. 'Animal Experiments' of their article, the authors noted that: "All animal studies were conducted in accordance with protocols approved by Animal Ethics Committee China Japan Friendship Hospital" (Zhang et al., 2018). Following concerns raised to journal a reader regarding study's ethical approval process, would like inform readers that, due translation error and misunderstandin...