Ethical Review

Results of a self-assessment tool to assess the operational characteristics of research ethics committees in low- and middle-income countries
Henry Silverman, Hany Sleem, Keymanthri Moodley, Nandini Kumar, Sudeshni Naidoo, Thilakavathi Subramanian, Rola Jaafar, Malini Moni

Journal of Medical Ethics Apr 2015, 41 (4) 332-337; DOI: 10.1136/medethics-2013-101587

CLINICAL
- Anaesthesia
  - Other anaesthesia (34)
  - Pain (anaesthesia) (18)
- Diagnostics
  - Clinical diagnostic tests (63)
- Evidence based practice
  - Effectiveness of care
  - Equity of care
  - Teaching EBM
- General practice / family medicine (108)
- Genetics
  - Clinical genetics (36)
  - Cytogenetics
  - Genetic screening / counselling (21)
  - Molecular genetics (10)
- Geriatric medicine
  - Elder abuse (1)
  - End of life decisions (geriatric medicine) (424)
  - Long term care (10)
  - Psychogeriatrics (13)
- Infectious diseases
  - Emerging infectious diseases
    - Bird flu (2)
  - HIV/AIDS (151)
- Infectious diseases
- Intensive care
  - Adult intensive care (67)
  - Mechanical ventilation (11)
  - Paediatric intensive care (6)
- Neurology
  - Neurogenetics
- Nursing (25)
- Obstetrics and gynaecology
  - Abortion (18)
- Oncology (115)
- Paediatrics
  - Child health (222)
- Palliative care
  - End of life decisions (palliative care) (424)
  - Hospice (155)
  - Pain (palliative care) (22)
- Prison medicine (45)
- Psychiatry
  - Psychotic disorders (incl schizophrenia)
  - Suicide (psychiatry) (160)
- Rehabilitation medicine
  - Disability (71)
- Renal medicine
  - Dialysis (1)
  - Renal transplantation (17)
- Respiratory medicine
  - Airway biology
  - Asthma
  - Bronchiolitis
  - Bronchitis
  - Bronchopulmonary dysplasia
  - Mechanical ventilation (11)
- Sexual health (194)
- Sports and exercise medicine (30)
NON-CLINICAL
- Communication (14)
- Epidemiology
  - Clinical trials (epidemiology) (110)
  - Epidemiologic studies (104)
  - Population trends
  - Screening (epidemiology) (83)
  - Survey techniques
  - Therapeutic trials (1)
  - Time-to-event methods
- Ethics
  - Artificial and donated transplantation (201)
  - Assisted dying (249)
  - Bioethics (215)
  - Clinical ethics (96)
  - Codes of professional ethics (8)
  - Competing interests (ethics) (85)
  - Confidentiality (110)
  - Drug issues (5)
  - End of life decisions (ethics) (424)
  - Ethics of abortion (206)
  - Ethics of contraception
  - Ethics of reproduction (375)
  - Experiments in vivo (10)
  - Informed consent (348)
  - International / political dimensions of biology and medicine
  - Research and publication ethics (592)
  - Sexuality / gender
  - The neurosciences and mental therapies
- Ethnic studies
- Health economics (50)
- Health informatics (8)
- Health policy (143)
- Health service research (118)
- Healthcare improvement and patient safety
- Legal and forensic medicine (513)
- Medical careers
- Medical education
  - Postgraduate (10)
  - Undergraduate (133)
- Medical humanities
- Medical humanities
- Medical management
  - Doctors' morale and well being
  - Medical error/ patient safety (22)
- Occupational and environmental medicine (18)
- Patients (85)
- Public health
  - Abuse (child, partner, elder) (16)
  - Health education (106)
  - Health of indigenous peoples
  - Homicide
  - Human rights (194)
  - Infection control
  - Injury diagnoses
  - Injury location
    - Workplace injury
  - Injury mechanisms
  - Medical consequences of conflict
  - Migration and health
  - Obesity (public health) (18)
  - Screening (public health) (83)
  - Sexual health (public health)
  - Smoking (37)
  - Suicide (public health) (160)
  - Vaccination programs (6)
  - Violence against women (3)
- Sociology (6)
Special collections
- Editor's choice (122)
- Guidelines, Recommendations and Consensus Statements
- JME Author meets critics (89)
- JME DSM-5 (5)
- JME Medical Ethics and Asylum
- Open access (184)
- Press releases (63)
- Special issues

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