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Standards for research ethics committees: purpose, problems and the possibilities of other approaches
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- Published on: 8 June 2009
- Published on: 8 June 2009Five precepts or commandments for research ethics committeesShow More
This excellent paper should be taken in light of several reports, conferences and papers that draw attention to guidelines and procedures to be followed by research ethics committees (RECs). I wish to suggest five simple prescriptive precepts or commandments that ought to be institutionalized in RECs, and be part of the values or moral code of members of such organizations. Most of these are self-explanatory and are ther...
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