ArticleIntensive care medicine2009
Protocols in expedited review: tackling the workload of ethics committees.
Article in Intensive care medicine, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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- Year in review in Intensive Care Medicine 2009. Part III: mechanical ventilation, acute lung injury and respiratory distress syndrome, pediatrics, ethics, and miscellanea.Intensive care medicine · 2010Review
- Research ethics committees in Europe: trials and tribulations.Intensive care medicine · 2009Article
- Should European Independent Ethics Committees be dismantled?Intensive care medicine · 2009Article
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Abstract
purposeThis paper describes the experience of the Ethics Committee of the Medical University of Vienna, Austria, while managing the workload of clinical study applications.
methodsAn expedited review process was introduced for initial review of study protocols regarded as minimal risk interventions in March 2004.
resultsA total of 504 study protocols were submitted for review in 2003 and this number has increased to 743 in 2007. Two hundred sixty eight studies were classified as minimal risk in 2007 and allocated to a subgroup of the Committee for review. The time to full approval was shorter for these studies as compared to other protocols.
conclusionsImplementation of initial expedited review can improve the performance of an Ethics Committee. A framework to achieve a single opinion for multisite research of minimal risk interventions should be considered to facilitate these low risk studies.
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