Huge variation in obtaining ethical permission for a non-interventional observational study in Europe

Abstract Background Ethical approval (EA) must be obtained before medical research can start. We describe the differences in EA for an pseudonymous, non-interventional, observational European study. Methods Sixteen European national coordinators (NCs) of the international study on very old intensive...

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Main Authors: Dylan W. de Lange, Bertrand Guidet, Finn H. Andersen, Antonio Artigas, Guidio Bertolini, Rui Moreno, Steffen Christensen, Maurizio Cecconi, Christina Agvald-Ohman, Primoz Gradisek, Christian Jung, Brian J. Marsh, Sandra Oeyen, Bernardo Bollen Pinto, Wojciech Szczeklik, Ximena Watson, Tilemachos Zafeiridis, Hans Flaatten
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-06-01
Series:BMC Medical Ethics
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12910-019-0373-y