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ReviewActa bio-medica : Atenei Parmensis2020

Ethics committees for clinical experimentation at international level with a focus on Italy.

Zakira Naureen, Tommaso Beccari, Robert S Marks, Richard Brown, Lorenzo Lorusso, Derek Pheby, Stanislav Miertus, Karen L Herbst, Liborio Stuppia, Gary Henehan and 5 more

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Review in Acta bio-medica : Atenei Parmensis, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
7citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors.

Zakira NaureenDepartment of Biological Sciences and Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Nizwa, Nizwa, Oman. zakiranaureen@gmail.com.
Tommaso BeccariDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy. tommaso.beccari@unipg.it.
Robert S MarksAvram and Stella Goldstein-Goren Department of Biotechnology Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. rsmarks@bgu.ac.il.
Richard BrownDepartment of Psychology and Neuroscience, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Richard.Brown@Dal.Ca.
Lorenzo LorussoNeurology Unit, ASST-Lecco, Merate (LC), Italy. lorusso.lorenzo@gmail.com.
Derek PhebyVisiting Professor of Epidemiology (retired), Buckinghamshire New University, High Wycombe, UK. derekpheby@btinternet.com.
Stanislav MiertusDepartment of Biotechnology, University of SS. Cyril and Methodius, Trnava, Slovakia. stanislav.miertus@ucm.sk.
Karen L HerbstCollege of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States. kaherbst@gmail.com.
Liborio StuppiaDepartment of Psychological, Health and Territorial Sciences, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, "G. d'Annunzio" University of Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy. stuppia@unich.it.
Gary HenehanSchool of Food Science and Environmental Health, Technological University Dublin, Dublin 1, Ireland. gary.henehan@TUDublin.ie.
Benedetto FalsiniInstitute of Ophthalmology, Fondazione Policlinico Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy. Benedetto.Falsini@unicatt.it.
Ludovica LumerDepartment of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, Univerity College London, London, UK. ludovicalumer@yahoo.com.
Munis DundarDepartment of Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey. dundar@erciyes.edu.tr.
Matteo BertelliEBTNA-LAB, Rovereto (TN), Italy; MAGI EUREGIO, Bolzano, Italy; MAGI'S LAB, Rovereto (TN), Italy. matteo.bertelli@assomagi.org.
International Bioethical Study GroupInternational Bioethical Study Group. matteo.bertelli@assomagi.org.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Guiding legislation and associated bureaucracy for the ethical review of clinical trials observational studies and food related research play an important role in the competitiveness of a nation in the face of tough global competition to attract sponsors and investigators. This is of particular relevance in the case of multicentre trials and multidisciplinary research. Accordingly, in this report we tried to gather in-depth knowledge of the current role and practices of ethics committees nationwide in both clinical and research settings. This mini-review aims to describe the formulation and organization of ethical committees in Italy in order to provide a focus for deliberations on ethical issues in medical and scientific research in line with human rights, as set out in the European Union charter. Furthermore, we evaluated the impact of an institution's ethical committee intervention on reducing the time required to obtain an opinion from Research Ethics Committees by guiding investigators in addressing ethical issues in their proposed studies.

Indexed as

Ethical ReviewEthics Committees, ResearchEuropean UnionHumansItalyResearch Design

Identifiers

PMID33170165
PMCPMC8023139

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Registered trials

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