A huge amount of planning goes into writing research protocols and developing recruitment strategies but it is only when research begins in the real world that researchers can start to grapple with the challenges of recruitment. During a recent Clinfield … Continue reading →
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In the seventh and final blog in this series on the ethical principles underpinning research I’m going to consider ‘respect for autonomy’. This principle requires that researchers allow individuals to make free and voluntary decisions about participating in research after … Continue reading →
Today I chaired a meeting of an NHS/NRES Research Ethics Committee (REC) and was once again astonished by the length and complexity of the participant information sheets being reviewed by the Committee. Amongst the applications on today’s agenda, three were … Continue reading →
Clinical research is undoubtedly dependent on the recruitment of suitable participants; without them research is non-existent. Much emphasis is placed on the quality of the different components of the research endeavor with researchers needing to comply with the requirements of … Continue reading →
Seeking freely given informed consent has been a central requirement for all research involving human participants since publication of the Nuremberg Code (1947) and then the Declaration of Helsinki (1964). Research ethics committees (RECs) will spend much of their time … Continue reading →
Jun 17, 2016 in Ethics, informed consent, Recruitment and retention, Research