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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Authors: Fritschi, Lin (Author) ; Kelsall, L. (Author) ; Loff, Bebe (Author) ; Slegers, Claudia (Author) ; Zion, Deborah (Author) ; Glass, C. (Author)
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Published: BMJ Publ. 2015
In: Journal of medical ethics
Year: 2015, Volume: 41, Issue: 7, Pages: 545-548
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