Is it time to abandon institutional research ethics committees?
Research on human beings has significantly increased in ethical and scientific complexity. Ethics review is at a fork in the road. Either we significantly increase the resources we provide to support institutional research ethics committees. Or we abandon the institutional base of human research ethics review and move to model of expert suprainstitutional ethics committees.
Savulescu
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Ethics Program, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Australia. savulesj@cryptic.rch.unimelb.edu.au
D001315:Australia; D026724:Ethical Review; D028744:Ethics Committees, Research / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005378:Financial Support; D006801:Humans