Methods. With Ethics Committee approval, a blood sample was obtained from all patients taken to a major trauma hospital in Melbourne following a motor vehicle collision. This was done at the same time and under the same law as the compulsory blood screening which is legal in Victoria. 358 specimens have been submitted for analysis so far. Blood stored in vacutainer tubes containing preservative...

Materials and methods Case-control study. Cases were defined by the presence of T2D and CKD stages 3-5, evaluated by estimated GFR<60 mL/min, and controls were formed by patients with T2D and GFR>60mL/min (diabetic control group); and by individuals without T2D (non-diabetic control group). PGRN was determined with enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay in blood and urine samples after overnight fas...

Introduction Children of the Nineties (ALSPAC) is a major longitudinal study of pregnancy and childhood. From its beginnings in 1990, it has had its own multidisciplinary ethics and law committee, with several interesting features. The committee is specific to this study and has a broad remit which has allowed it to be involved in planning the study as a whole, approving individual projects, an...

The same research proposal was submitted to 24 district health authority (DHA) research ethics committees in different parts of the country. The objective was to obtain permission for a multi-centre research project. The study of neonatal care in different types of unit (regional, subregional and district), required that four health authorities were approached in each of six widely separated he...

BACKGROUND The review of human participant research by Research Ethics Committees (RECs) or Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) is a complex multi-faceted process that cannot be reduced to an algorithm. However, this does not give RECs/ IRBs permission to be inconsistent in their specific requirements to researchers or in their final opinions. In England the Health Research Authority (HRA) coord...

Shiraz University of Medical Sciences (SUMS) in partnership with Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) UK organized a two day Second International Congress on Publication Ethics at Shiraz from December 4-5th 2014. It was held in collaboration with Iranian Medical Journals Commission, Iranian Society of Medical Editors and National Committee for Ethics in Medical Research Dr. Behrooz Astaneh Ch...

Ethics questions and conflicts will always be commonplace in rural health care practices. Despite the ethics knowledge and skills that clinicians and administrators may possess, ethics conflicts are stressful and time-consuming because of the inherent uncertainty surrounding such conflicts. To manage the potential negative effect of ethics conflicts, health care professionals and institutions s...

a number of ex officio members, who constitute the Hospital Saturday Committee. The aim of this committee is to obtain and maintain regular weekly contributions from every working man and woman in the district. When one realises that the " working classes" comprise the greater portion of the populace, it is readily seen that the achievement of the aforementioned aim would go far to solve the pr...