International variation in ethics committee requirements: comparisons across five Westernised nations
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Ethics committees typically apply the common principles of autonomy, nonmaleficence, beneficence and justice to research proposals but with variable weighting and interpretation. This paper reports a comparison of ethical requirement...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2002-04-01
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Series: | BMC Medical Ethics |
Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6939/3/2 |