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

Although clinical ethics has become a central, and welcome, component of the health care
landscape, research ethics consultation services are still uncommon. Indeed, the usual …

The increasing complexity of human subjects research and its oversight has prompted
researchers, as well as institutional review boards (IRBs), to have a forum in which to …

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

The complexity of biomedical research has increased considerably in the last decade, as
has the pace of translational research. This complexity has generated a number of novel …

This book teaches researchers how to resolve the ethical dilemmas that can arise at any
stage in clinical research. In addition to explaining pertinent regulations and laws, Dr. Lo …

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

BACKGROUND The RECS at JHSPH started in March 2005. As background, The Johns
Hopkins University received funds as part of an Office for Human Research …

Introduction: The goal of a research ethics consultation service (RECS) is to assist relevant
parties in navigating the ethical issues they encounter in conduct of research. The goal of …

The Oxford Textbook of Clinical Research Ethics is the first comprehensive and systematic
reference on clinical research ethics. Under the editorship of experts from the US National …