Research ethics committees: what is their contribution?

Perhaps a week of intensive training in critical thinking would be the best preparation for members of research ethics committees

The full article is accessible to AMA
members and paid subscribers.
Login to MJA or subscribe now.

LOGIN TO MJA TO DOWNLOAD

SUBSCRIBE NOW

1 Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Prahran, VIC.
2 Victorian Infectious Diseases Service and Centre for Clinical Research Excellence in Infectious Diseases, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, VIC.

Correspondence:

Competing interests:

None identified.

1. Trials of War Criminals before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals under Control Council Law No. 10, Vol. 2, pp 181-182. Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1949. Available at: ohsr.od.nih.gov/guidelines/nuremberg.html (accessed Sep 2004).
2. World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki. Ethical principles for medical research involving human subjects. Available at: ohsr.od.nih.gov/guidelines/helsinki.html (accessed Sep 2004).
3. National Health and Medical Research Council. National statement on ethical conduct in research involving humans. Canberra: NHMRC, 1999. Available at: www.nhmrc.gov.au/publications/synopses/e35syn.htm (accessed Sep 2004).
4. Somerville MA. Raising our ethics awareness is a good start [editorial]. Med J Aust 2004; 181: 180-181. <MJA full text>
5. Beecher HK. Ethics and clinical research. N Engl J Med 1966; 274: 367-372.

Online responses are no longer available. Please refer to our instructions for authors page for more information.