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Ethical Checklists for Clinical Research Projects and Laboratory Medicine: two tools to evaluate compliance with
Julián Verona1, Gülsen Yilmaz2,3, Martina Zaninotto4
1Hospital de Balcarce "Dr. Felipe A. Fossati", Balcarce, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Objectives:
To develop two ethical checklists to evaluate (i) management of ethical concerns in research projects and (ii) awareness of ethical conduct of healthcare laboratory professionals.
Methods:
Comprehensive discussion among the members of IFCC Task Force on Ethics based on pertinent literature.
Results:
This Checklist for Clinical Research Projects should be useful to evaluate research proposals from an ethical perspective before submitting it to an IRB or its equivalent, thereby diminishing rejection rates and resulting in more time-effective projects. The checklist designed to evaluate the ethical conduct in laboratory medicine could be useful for self evaluation (internal audits) and for certification/accreditation processes performed by third parties.
Conclusions:
These checklists are simple but powerful tools useful to guide professionals to adhere to ethical principles in their practice, especially in developing countries where accredited ethics committees may be difficult to find.
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