title: HoMER - an opportunity or threat to general practice research?
abstract: The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Harmonisation of Multicentre Ethical Review (HoMER) project aims to implement a 'single ethical review', where the outcome of an ethical and scientific review by a single recognised Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC) will enable multiple institutions to decide whether or not to participate in a given study. The desired process will include agreement on time frames, authority of the reviewing HREC, respect among the jurisdictions, verification by independent organisations, and compliance with the national statement and relevant statutory and administrative frameworks. However, there appears to be little discourse on the implications for general practice research in the research community.
authors.affiliation: University of New South Wales, New South Wales, Australia. siaw@unsw.edu.au
authors.forename: Siaw-Teng
authors.initials: ST
authors.lastname: Liaw
mesh_terms: D000047:Academies and Institutes / Q000458:organization & administration; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001315:Australia; D026724:Ethical Review / Q000592:standards*; D028744:Ethics Committees, Research / Q000592:standards*; D032984:Ethics, Research; D058006:General Practice / Q000941:ethics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D009313:National Health Programs / Q000458:organization & administration; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians' / Q000941:ethics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration