Ethics Committee
What is Ethics Committee?
A body within an organisation responsible for reviewing ethical issues, establishing ethical guidelines, and ensuring that business practices align with the organisation's values and ethical standards.
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Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as ethics committee. The number is how many controls name both.
- consent 5 shared controls
- confidentiality 3 shared controls
- nist 3 shared controls
- compliance 3 shared controls
- governance 3 shared controls
- transparency 2 shared controls
- pseudonymisation 2 shared controls
- authorisation 2 shared controls
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What the standards actually require on ethics committee
Requirements naming ethics committee across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
Section 3 establishes Institutional Review Board (IRB) and Independent Ethics Committee (IEC) responsibilities. IRB/IEC composition + qualifications + procedures + meeting documentation + records; protocol review + initial + continuing + amendment review;
ICH-E6-IRB-IEC-EthicsCommittee-InformedConsent-Vulnerable · ICH E6 Section 3 - Institutional Review Board (IRB) + Independent Ethics Committee (IEC) + Informed Consent + Vulnerable Populations →Seventeenth additional provision: listed health statutes provide the GDPR 9.2 g to j basis for health and genetic data; for health research, consent may cover general areas of a speciality;
spain-organic-law-32018-on-data-protection-and-digital-rights-lopdgdd::DA 17 · Health research: follow the rules on broad consent, compatible reuse, pseudonymisation separation and ethics committee review →Article 70 sets the application procedure for clinical investigations through EUDAMED + Member State competent authority. Article 74 covers clinical investigations on CE-marked devices used outside the intended purpose.
MDR-Art.70_74_75_80_82 · Clinical-investigation application + CE-marked-device studies + substantial modifications + adverse events + records (Articles 70, 74-75, 80, 82) →Practitioners involved in designing, organising, conducting or reporting human health research: (a) give participants due respect and protection; (b) are honest and act with integrity;
ahpra-shared-code-of-conduct-2022::11.1 · 11.1 Research ethics →Human Research Ethics Committees and other review bodies are properly constituted and review research against the National Statement.
NHMRC-NS-5.2 · Responsibilities of HRECs and other ethics review bodies →When a lawyer knows that another lawyer has broken the rules in a way that raises a substantial question about honesty, trustworthiness or fitness to practise, the lawyer must inform the appropriate professional authority, and may not make non-reporting of suc...
connecticut-rules-of-professional-conduct-connecticut-practice-book::8.3 · Report professional misconduct of lawyers and judges; never trade silence for settlement →Questions people ask about ethics committee
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