MONITORING OF RESEARCH BY RESEARCH ETHICS BOARDS HAS BEEN
RECOMMENDED by various organizations that fund clinical studies and by other groups …

In recent years, to protect the rights and welfare of human subjects, institutions in the USA
have begun to set up programmes to monitor ongoing medical research. These programmes …

Objective: Canadian and international guidelines for research ethics practices have
advocated that research ethics boards (REBs) should implement mechanisms to review and …

Aims All health related research carried out within New Zealand requires appraisal from an
accredited ethics committee. The purpose of this project was to pilot an active monitoring …

Background: Despite potential benefits of the return of research results to research
participants, the TriCouncil Policy Statement (TCPS), which reflects Canadian regulatory …

The objective of this commentary is to provide a framework and ethical justification for a
more proactive model of continual, active monitoring of research. We outline what the …

BACKGROUND: There is relatively little research concerning the processes whereby Local
Research Ethics Committees discharge their responsibilities towards society, potential …

Background The aim of this paper is to compare common features and variation in the work
of research ethics committees (RECs) in Finland to three other countries–England, Canada …

Aim: To assess the range of issues that arise for researchers, research participants and
ethics committee members in the setting of a hospital‐based research environment and to …

OBJECTIVES: To report the outcome of applications to 43 research ethics committees.
SETTING: Four regional health authorities in England. FINDINGS: The research ethics …