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ArticleHRB open research2020

Ethical Considerations for safeguarding human participants in pandemic research: a rapid review protocol.

Lydia O'Sullivan, Ronan P Killeen, Peter Doran, Rachel K Crowley

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Article in HRB open research, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Lydia O'SullivanUCD School of Medicine, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland.
Ronan P KilleenResearch Ethics Committee, St Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin 4, Ireland.
Peter DoranUCD School of Medicine, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland.
Rachel K CrowleyUCD School of Medicine, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1472-4117

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

COVID-19 is a respiratory disease caused by a coronavirus, designated SARS-CoV-2, which is responsible for a global pandemic in 2020. Public interest in this disease has led to the publication of thousands of articles in the medical literature in a very short timeframe. It is imperative that medical research into COVID-19 is conducted quickly and safely, and that due reference is given to the ethical considerations enshrined in the ICH GCP guidelines, according to the Declaration of Helsinki. In order to review the reporting of ethical considerations in these papers, we hereby propose a protocol for a systematic review of COVID-19 papers up to April 14

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case studiesclinical trialsCOVID-19pandemicresearch ethics

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PMID32832851
PMCPMC7424914

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