This article describes the lessons learned from introducing and establishing an ethics committee in a large third sector care provider. The article hopes to encourage other organisations to introduce similar committees and to help avoid potential problems and give advice on how to navigate others. It also hopes to give researchers and students insight into how a committee works and therefore pe...

Retraction The Editors-in-Chief are retracting this article [1] because the study was not conducted with the appropriate ethical oversight. Contrary to the statement in the article that ethics committee approval was not required, an investigation by the Arcispedale Santa Maria NuovaIRCCS has determined that the study should have been reviewed and approved by an ethics committee. All authors agr...

•Any experimental research reported in the manuscript must have been performed with the approval of an appropriate ethics committee. Please clearly confirm in the Methods section whether or not your study needed ethical approval, and which bodies gave that approval or waived the need where appropriate. Please include the specific name of the ethics committee. Any experimental research on humans...

Each of the following papers gives an account of a different UK clinical ethics committee. The committees vary in the length of time they have been established, and also in the main focus of their work. The accounts discuss the development of the committees and some of the ethical problems that have been brought to them. The issues raised will be relevant for other National Health Service (NHS)...

Objectives: To summarise the types of case brought to the Clinical Ethics Committee of the National Hospital of Norway from 1996 to 2002 and to describe and discuss to what extent issues of information/ communication have been involved in the ethical problems. Design: Systematic review of case reports. Findings: Of the 31 case discussions, (20 prospective, 11 retrospective), 19 cases concerned ...

Because of the importance of including ethical considerations in planning efforts for pandemic influenza, in February 2005 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention requested that the Ethics Subcommittee of the Advisory Committee to the Director develop guidance that would serve as a foundation for decision making in preparing for and responding to pandemic influenza. Specifically, the eth...

This paper examines the UK's response to a recent European Clinical Trials Directive, namely the Department of Health, Central Office for Research Ethics Committee guidance, Governance Arrangements for NHS Research Ethics Committees. The revisions have been long awaited by researchers and research ethics committee members alike. They substantially reform the ethical review system in the UK. We ...

OBJECTIVES To summarise the types of case brought to the Clinical Ethics Committee of the National Hospital of Norway from 1996 to 2002 and to describe and discuss to what extent issues of information/communication have been involved in the ethical problems. DESIGN Systematic review of case reports. FINDINGS Of the 31 case discussions, (20 prospective, 11 retrospective), 19 cases concerned ...

BACKGROUND In biomedical journals, authors are expected to report if the study was carried out in accordance with international and national ethical guidelines and inform readers if approval from ethics committee was obtained and if written informed consent was taken from the participant or legal guardian. AIMS To determine the proportion of research manuscripts in two pediatric journals publ...