Retrospect and Prospect:Analysis of Knowledge Mapping Domain of Ethics Committee Study in China / 中国医学伦理学

ABSTRACT

Through the development of close to 30 years,ethics committee has become an indispensable part of biomedical research involving human beings.The research into ethics committee is problem-orientated and has made rich research results from theoretical research to practical research.By using software CiteSpace Ⅲ and analytic visualization of CNKI literature as measuring and drawing tool,this paper made the mapping knowledge domain of ethics committee study since 1991 and found that the published articles amount showed a wave upward trend,the quantity increased sharply in recent years and the research focused on ethical review,clinical trial,informed consent,human subjects,etc.The research topics developed from macro level to micro level and fitted with the development of whole ethical practice.The existing research mainly focused on five aspects of the analysis of laws and regulation,multidisciplinary perspective analysis of ethics committees,the management and practice,the review mechanism and supervision and evaluation.The existing research lacked many summaries accordance with China's national condition;the theory was separate from practice;the research on the micro-level was less.With the development of ethics committee in China,the ethics research on micro-level will become the focus of next step.