How ethics committees and requirements are structuring health research in the Philippines: a qualitative study

Abstract Background The last few decades have seen the rising global acknowledgment of the importance of ethics in the conduct of health research. But research ethics committees or institutional review boards (IRBs) have also been criticized for being barriers to research. This article examines the...

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Main Authors: Gideon Lasco, Vincen Gregory Yu, Lia Palileo-Villanueva
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-07-01
Series:BMC Medical Ethics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12910-021-00653-z