From U Edinburgh: Risk Assessment as a Paradox: When Actions of an IRB Become Incompatible with Ethical Principles

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23009268

Account Res. 2012 Sep;19(5):273-84.

Risk Assessment as a Paradox: When Actions of an IRB Become Incompatible with Ethical Principles.

Ranjbar V.

Source

a Department of Psychology , The University of Edinburgh , Edinburgh , Scotland , UK.

Abstract

As anecdotal evidence mounts up of Institutional Review Boards becoming an impediment to research, I share a personal experience in this article to argue how the conduct of an Institutional Review Board was incompatible with a number of ethical principles such as Respect for Persons, Deception, Informed Consent, and Justice. I conclude by promoting Evidence-Based Ethical Problem Solving to facilitate and enhance risk assessments through empirical evidence.