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Open Access 01-04-2009 | Editorial

Should European Independent Ethics Committees be dismantled?

Author: Olivier Chassany

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 4/2009

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This issue of Intensive Care Medicine presents two aspects of the difficulties that face Independent Ethics Committees (IEC) regarding their role and responsibilities, and not resolved either by the European Directive or by its translation in national laws: a negative point of view on the utility of European IECs through a survey among authors of clinical trials published in some major journals in 2007 [1], and a constructive initiative of the Vienna university IEC, on reviewing interventional studies at minimal risk through an expedited process [2]. …

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Wolzt M, Druml C, Leitner D, Singer EA (2009) Protocols in expedited review—tackling the workload of Ethics Committees. Intensive Care Med. doi:10.1007/s00134-008-1343-x

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Title: Should European Independent Ethics Committees be dismantled?
Author: Olivier Chassany
Publication date: 01-04-2009
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 4/2009
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-009-1435-2

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