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Non-equivalent stringency of ethical review in the Baltic States: a sign of a systematic problem in Europe?
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- Published on: 13 July 2010
- Published on: 13 July 2010Problems on ethical review: problem of no standard and need for management for developing countriesShow More
Dear Editor
I read the recent report on the non-equivalent stringency of ethical review with a great interest [1]. Gefenas proposed that, for two identified problems, (1) there is an "asymmetry between rather strict regulations of clinical drug trials and relatively weaker regulations of other types of clinical biomedical research" and that (2) there are "gaps in ethical review in the area of non- biomedical human rese...
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