Research ethics boards are essential for protecting the rights and well-being of research
participants. Currently, however, investigators, research institutes and funders are …

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 …

Review boards responsible for vetting the ethical conduct of research have been criticised
for their costliness, unreliability and inappropriate standards when evaluating some non …

We have followed with interest the commentaries arising from Moore and Donnellys 1
argument that authorities in charge of research ethics committees (RECs) should focus …

Research ethics committees have to ensure that research projects are asking sensible
questions and are designed so that the questions will be answered, that the research …

In their article,“The job of 'ethics committees'”, Andrew Moore and Andrew Donnelly argue
that current guidance documents provide that institutional research review committees …

The function of local research ethics committees is to consider the ethics of research
proposals using human participants. After approval has been given, there is no …

Background: In view of the increasing complexity of research ethics committee (REC)
applications and thus the time and expense involved in completing the forms, continual …

In a recent editorial in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Jeremy Sugarman
argues that," The time is ripe for evidence-based ethics. Similar to evidence-based …

This issue of the JRCPL features two papers by Holley and Foster (pages 238-41 and 242-
5) that describe data rele vant to the process of ethical approval of multi-centre research …