Although bioethicists and institutions have long provided ethics consultations on an
individual basis, research ethics consultation is still a relatively new concept1 as an …

In their target article “Strangers at the Benchside: Research Ethics Consultation,” Mildred
Cho and colleagues (2008) provide a useful overview of different approaches to research …

Institutional ethics consultation services for biomedical scientists have begun to proliferate,
especially for clinical researchers. We discuss several models of ethics consultation and …

Research ethics consultation was first mentioned in the published literature nearly 20 years
ago when Singer and colleagues described a collaborative process between clinical …

Interesting and important ethical questions confront researchers, regulators, institutional
review boards, support personnel, and research participants committed to the ethical …

Although many hospitals have long offered a clinical ethics consultation service to their
physicians, patients, and allied health professionals, formal ethics consultation in the …

DISCUSSION Although the number of RECS at academic institutions has recently increased
(Cho et al. 2015), the information describing these services is incomplete. More data are …

Emphasis on translational research to facilitate progression from the laboratory into the
community also creates a dynamic in which ethics and social policy questions and solutions …

In their article, Kathryn May Porter et al.(2018) describe their experience with the National
Research Ethics Consultation Collaborative, a nationwide group of research ethics …

CONCLUSION Research is complex and continually evolving; ethical dilemmas can arise
and are arising at all stages. All stakeholders can agree on the ends, that ethical dilemmas …