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标题：University Research Ethics Committees — A Summary of Research into Their Role, Remit and Conduct
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作者：Anthea Tinker ; Vera Coomber
期刊名称：Research Ethics
印刷版ISSN：1747-0161
电子版ISSN：2047-6094
出版年度：2005
卷号：1
期号：1
页码：5-11
DOI：10.1177/174701610500100103
出版社：SAGE Publications
摘要：As society becomes more aware of the rights of individuals, ethical issues become of increasing importance. Many research funders, including the research councils, increasingly emphasise research governance and ethical review in their consideration of submitted proposals. Little is known, however, about what universities do over ethical scrutiny and in order to find out the authors undertook a national study of all universities in the United Kingdom. The focus of the study was on human volunteers for research outside the remit of the National Health Service. The key questions being: to what extent do universities undertake ethical scrutiny of research and, if so, how? The broad conclusion is that when this survey was carried out in the autumn of 2003, the majority of universities were aware of the need for the ethical scrutiny of research on human subjects although in many of those universities the scrutiny system was being developed at the time of completion of the questionnaire. In some cases practice appeared to lag behind awareness and whilst there were some very good examples there were also some which were below an ‘acceptable’ standard. Recommendations are made concerning structures, coverage and membership for systems of ethical scrutiny within the university sector.