Compliance with ethical standards in the reporting of donor sources and ethics review in peer-reviewed publications involving organ transplantation in China: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The objective of this study is to investigate whether papers reporting research on Chinese transplant recipients comply with international professional standards aimed at excluding publication of research that: (1) involves any biological material from executed prisoners; (2) lacks Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval and (3) lacks consent of donors.

Design

Scoping review based on Arksey and O'Mallee's methodological framework.

Data sources

Medline, Scopus and Embase were searched from January 2000 to April 2017.

Eligibility criteria

We included research papers published in peer-reviewed English-language journals reporting on outcomes of research involving recipients of transplanted hearts, livers or lungs in mainland China.

Data extraction a

SUBMITTER: Rogers W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6377532 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature