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Relevant reading:
Committee on Assessing the System for Protecting Human Research Subjects, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Institute of Medicine. Preserving Public Trust: Accreditation and Human Research Participant Protection Programs. Washington D.C.: National Academy Press; 2001.
This report provides the committee's response to the tasks of reviewing and considering proposed performance standards, recommending standards for accreditation, adn recommending an approach to monitoring and evaluating the system for the protection of human research participants.
Figure 1 in the "Executive Summary" illustrates the different components of the Human Research Participant Protection Programs (HRPPP) at a glance.
Savulescu J, Chalmers I, Blunt J. Are research ethics committees behaving unethically? Some suggestions for improving performance and accountability. BMJ 1996 Nov 30; 313:1390-3.
Blunt J. Savulescu, Watson AJM. Meeting the challenges facing research ethics committees: some practical suggestions. BMJ 1998 Jan 3; 316: 58-61
Clinical Trials Centre, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong. Operating an ethics committee to international standards, 2000 spring; 2(1).
Clinical trials without ethical review under the spotlight. Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2004 April; 82(4): 314.
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