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Conceptual Problems In Research Ethics, Charles Weijer
Conceptual Problems In Research Ethics, Charles Weijer
Research Day (Arts & Humanities, FIMS, and Education)
This poster addresses these issues:
• What good is medical research?
• What is owed to the study subject?
• When is research risk acceptable?
• How should we conduct research in developing countries?
• How should we conduct research involving communities?
Researchers’ Views On Ethical Challenges In Healthcare Cluster-Randomized Trials, Andrew Mcrae
Researchers’ Views On Ethical Challenges In Healthcare Cluster-Randomized Trials, Andrew Mcrae
Research Day (Arts & Humanities, FIMS, and Education)
• Cluster-randomized trials (CRTs) commonly used in education, public health, healthcare and social sciences
• Groups of individuals randomly assigned to receive one of 2 (or more) comparator interventions
• Effect of interventions evaluated after collecting data from individual group members
• Ethics guidelines developed for oversight of research enrolling individual subjects
• Little specific guidance for ethical conduct of CRTs
• Lack of guidance may lead to variability in ethics reviews between jurisdictions and over time