title: Ethical considerations in biomedical research: a personal view.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Ethical considerations are made when an experiment is planned and take a regulatory system of moral principles into account.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Ethical considerations should first and foremost be made in order to protect the individual subject/animal from being exposed to any unethical and perhaps even illegal intervention and to ensure that the experimental conditions used are appropriate.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The main role of research ethics committees is to assess the scientific and ethical aspects of submitted protocols and follow up the trial until its closure.
authors.affiliation: Gothenburg Migraine Clinic, SE-436 55 Hovås, Sweden. carl.g.dahlof@telia.com
authors.forename: Carl
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Dahlöf
mesh_terms: D032761:Animal Experimentation / Q000941:ethics* / Q000592:standards; D000818:Animals; D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000941:ethics* / Q000592:standards; D028744:Ethics Committees, Research / Q000592:standards*; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D006805:Human Experimentation / Q000941:ethics* / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent / Q000941:ethics* / Q000592:standards; D009014:Morals; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic
keywords: Ethical guidelines; conflict of interest; ethical principals; ethics committees; monitoring committees