Challenges and strategies to research ethics in conducting COVID-19 research.
J Evid Based Med
; 13(2): 173-177, 2020 May.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-343112
ABSTRACT
The number of research involving human subjects on coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is surging, bringing challenges to the ethical review committee (ERC) in terms of reviewing speed and special ethical considerations under the pandemic. However, the existing ethical review system and regulations have their limitations to meet the demand for a prompt and efficient epidemic control. Since the research under the public health emergency is different from that carried out in familiar situations to design and implementation, the strategy for a satisfactory ERC response should balance the duty of protecting individual participants as well as the special public needs derived from the disease control. It is suggested that the ethical review-related regulations need to be updated, and a unified supervision system to the overall ERC is required. ERC collaboration, capacity-improving and efficiency-improving measures need to be taken. With respect to the reviewing guidelines, it is suggested that the international norms should be explained with more consideration of the local condition and the exceptional circumstances in this public health emergency. A joint effort needs to be taken for better research conduction.
Keywords
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Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Pneumonia, Viral
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Research Design
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Coronavirus Infections
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Ethics Committees, Research
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Therapeutic Human Experimentation
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Pandemics
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Betacoronavirus
Type of study:
Diagnostic study
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Experimental Studies
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Prognostic study
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Randomized controlled trials
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
J Evid Based Med
Year:
2020
Document Type:
Article
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