International ethical guidelines for biomedical research involving human subjects
By: prepared by the Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS) in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO).
Contributors: Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences.; World Health Organization.
Publisher: CIOMS; World Health Organization
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Geneva
Language: eng
Number of pages: 112
Subjects: Human experimentation in medicine -- Moral and ethical aspects.; Medicine -- Research -- Moral and ethical aspects.; Human Experimentation.; Bioethics; Informed Consent.; Research -- ethics
Notes: "This is the third in the series of international ethical guidelines for biomedical research involving human subjects issued by the Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS) since 1982.-- Introd.
Table of contents: title: 1. Ethical justification and scientific validity of biomedical research involving human subjects; title: 2. Ethical review committees; title: 3. Ethical review of externally sponsored research; title: 4. Individual informed consent; title: 5. Obtaining informed consent: Essential information for prospective research subjects; title: 6. Obtaining informed consent: Obligations of sponsors and investigators; title: 7. Inducement to participate in research; title: 8. Benefits and risks of study participation; title: 9. Special limitations on risk when research involves individuals who are not capable of giving informed consent; title: 10. Research in populations and communities with limited resources; title: 11. Choice of control in clinical trials; title: 12. Equitable distribution of burdens and benefits in the selection of groups of subjects in research; title: 13. Research involving vulnerable persons; title: 14. Research involving children; title: 15. Research involving individuals who by reason of mental or behavioural disorders are not capable of giving adequately informed consent; title: 16. Women as research subjects; title: 17. Pregnant women as research subjects; title: 18. Safeguarding confidentiality; title: 19. Right of injured subjects to treatment and compensation; title: 20. Strengthening capacity for ethical and scientific review of biomedical research; title: 21. Ethical obligation of external sponsors to provide health-care services.