From Gothenburg Migraine Clinic-Sweden: Ethical considerations in biomedical research: A personal view

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23671248

Cephalalgia. 2013 Jun;33(8):507-11. doi: 10.1177/0333102412468674.

Ethical considerations in biomedical research: A personal view.

Dahlöf C.

Source

Gothenburg Migraine Clinic, Sweden.

Abstract

PREMISE:

Ethical considerations are made when an experiment is planned and take a regulatory system of moral principles into account.

DISCUSSION:

Ethical considerations should first and foremost be made in order to protect the individual subject/animal from being exposed to any unethical and perhaps even illegal intervention and to ensure that the experimental conditions used are appropriate.

SUMMARY:

The main role of research ethics committees is to assess the scientific and ethical aspects of submitted protocols and follow up the trial until its closure.