Data and tissue research without patient consent: A qualitative study of the views of research ethics committees in New Zealand

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Data and tissue research without patient consent: A qualitative study of the views of research ethics committees in New Zealand

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University of Otago

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Otago University Research Archive

Description

Purpose: Secondary use of clinical tissue and data is an increasingly important platform for health research. Many jurisdictions allow research ethics committees (RECs) or institutional review boards (IRBs) the flexibility to waive the requirement for patient consent for secondary research. But most RECs/IRBs conduct their meetings "behind closed doors" and their decision-making processes are opaque to researchers and academics. The purpose of this study was to assess how New Zealand RECs wei...

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Research paper

Research format

Scholarly text / Journal article

Thesis level

Article

Date created

2018-07-03

Creator

Ballantyne, Angela / Moore, Andrew

URL

https://hdl.handle.net/10523/27876

Related subjects

consent / focus groups / qualitative research / Research ethics / research ethics committees

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