The experience of the research ethics committees in Turkey

ARDA B.

Medicine and Law, cilt.19, sa.3, ss.493-500, 2000 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 19 Sayı: 3
  • Basım Tarihi: 2000
  • Dergi Adı: Medicine and Law
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.493-500
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Ethics Committees, Ethics in Turkey, Health Regulations, Turkish Medical Association
  • Ankara Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

In this article the experience of the research ethics committees in Turkey, which are nearly ten years old, is introduced. Although the legislation related to Research on Human Beings by using Drugs and Chemical Substances, issued on 29th January 1993 by the Ministry of Health, there are a lot of problems about RECs, for example the central ethics committee has no medical ethicist as a member, and there is no ethical concept other than "consent" in their operational procedures. Membership characteristics of the ECs, and their specialty areas described functions of the ECs, the forms used, and the major items used for the evaluation of the proposals are explained. Finally the ethics committee of the Turkish Medical Association is also introduced as another model of ECs in Turkey.