Guidelines on the practice of ethics committees in medical research

Book : Guidelines on the practice of ethics committees in medical research

Language : English

Library : Social Phsician

Publish Place : London

Publish Date : July 1984

Publisher : Royal College of physicians

Book Number : 4066

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CONTENTS
NOTE ON THE ORIGIN OF THIS DOCUMENT
INTRODUCTION
1. Objectives of Ethics Committees
2. The nature of the decision and the relevance of scientific quality to ethical decisions
3. Mandatory review
4.(a) Definition of a research project
(b) Introduction of a novel procedure in categories of patient
(c) Novel medical intervention in an individual patient
5. Membership and scope of Ethics Committees
6. Format of applications
7. Mode of working
(a) Meetings and postal approval
(b) Publications on functioning of Committees
(c) Adverse decisions and review
(d) Monitoring of approved projects
(e) Sanctions
(f) Responsibility of clinicians
(g) Confidentiality (h) Co - option
(i) Quorum
(j) Declaration of interest by Committee members

8. Consent
(a) Trivial and minimal risk procedures
(b) More substantial procedures
(c) Witnessed consent
(d) Healthy volunteers
(e) Subjects whose capacity to give consent is impaired
(f) Written consent
(8) Documentation of consent
(h) Research without consent of the patient
(1) Minor procedures (ii) Major procedures (iii) Use of patient records
9. Research involving children
10. Research Involving pregnant and nursing women
11. Research involving mentally ill and defective persons
12. Research involving unconscious or acutely ill persons
13. Research involving other vulnerable social groups
14. Community based research
15. Volunteers : healthy and patient
18. Injuries due to clinical investigation :
sponsored by non-industrial organizations sponsored by industry.
17. Medicines (drugs) and osficial requlation
18. Clinical assessment of licensed medicinal products in general practice
19. Miscellaneous topics
(a) Placebos
(b) Multicentre projects
(c) Payments
(i) To subjects
(ii) To investigators, departments and institution)
(d) Research on fetal material
(e) Educational activities
(f) Publication
(g) Cost of Research (h) Fees
20. Select Bibliography