eMJA: Multicentre research: negotiating the ethics approval obstacle course

Correction

Multicentre research: negotiating the ethics approval obstacle course

Lynne M Roberts, Lucy Bowyer, Caroline S Homer and Mark A Brown

MJA 2004; 180 (6): 262

Re “Multicentre research: negotiating the ethics approval obstacle course” a letter to the editor by Lynne M Roberts, Lucy Bowyer, Caroline S Homer and Mark A Brown in the 2 February issue of the Journal (Med J Aust 2004; 180: 139). There was an error in the Box summarising the requirements for gaining ethics approval.

The entry for “Time taken to gain approval” in the column headed “U” should read 4.5 months (not 42 months).

The html and pdf versions of the article available online have been corrected.

Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, St George Hospital, Sydney, NSW.

Lynne M Roberts, RN, CM, Research Midwife; Lucy Bowyer, MB BS, MRCOG, FRANZCOG, Senior Lecturer in Obstetrics, University of New South Wales; Caroline S Homer, RN, RM, PhD, Midwifery Consultant.

Department of Renal Medicine, St George Hospital, Sydney, NSW.

Mark A Brown, MB BS, FRACP, MD, Professor of Medicine, University of New South Wales.

Correspondence: Dr Lucy Bowyer, Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, St George Hospital, Research Building, Kensington Street, Kogarah, Sydney, NSW 2217. BowyerlATsesahs.nsw.gov.au

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