A cross-sectional survey to investigate community understanding of medical research ethics committees

Study explanatory forms often state that an ethics committee has approved a research project. To determine whether the lay community understand the roles of ethics committees in research, we took a cross-sectional national sample from three sampling frames: the general population (n=1532); cohort st...

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Main Authors: Fritschi, Lin, Kelsall, H., Loff, B., Slegers, C., Zion, D., Glass, D.
Format: Journal Article
Published: jme bmj 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/50815