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. 2008 Mar;8(3):4-13.
doi: 10.1080/15265160802132951.

Strangers at the benchside: research ethics consultation

Mildred K Cho  1 , Sara L Tobin, Henry T Greely, Jennifer McCormick, Angie Boyce, David Magnus
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Strangers at the benchside: research ethics consultation

Mildred K Cho et al. Am J Bioeth. 2008 Mar.

Abstract

Institutional ethics consultation services for biomedical scientists have begun to proliferate, especially for clinical researchers. We discuss several models of ethics consultation and describe a team-based approach used at Stanford University in the context of these models. As research ethics consultation services expand, there are many unresolved questions that need to be addressed, including what the scope, composition, and purpose of such services should be, whether core competencies for consultants can and should be defined, and how conflicts of interest should be mitigated. We make preliminary recommendations for the structure and process of research ethics consultation, based on our initial experiences in a pilot program.

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