Ranking Research Methodology by Risk - a cross-sectional study to determine the opinion of research ethics committee members.

ABSTRACT:

Background

When reviewing a protocol, research ethics committees (RECs, equivalent to institutional review boards - IRBs) have the responsibility to consider whether the proposed research is justified. If research is not justified, it can waste participants' time, researchers' time and resources. As RECs are not constituted to cover all areas of scientific or academic expertise, it can be difficult for RECs to decide whether research is scientifically or methodologically justified especially in the absence of authoritative (often in the form of systematic) reviews. Where such reviews are absent, some have argued that RECs should insist on a new review of existing evidence as a condition of the REC favourable opinion. However, as RECs review a wide range of research, such requests m

SUBMITTER: Kolstoe SE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10472668 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature