ArticlePalliative medicine2020
Ethical and research governance approval across Europe: Experiences from three European palliative care studies.
Article in Palliative medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Catalysing global surgery: a meta-research study on factors affecting surgical research collaborations with Africa.Systematic reviews · 2024Pooled it
- Bioethics committee approvals in multicentre laryngology research across Europe: the European Laryngological Society's consensus on legal basis and quality assurance.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2026Article
- Conducting Research in Palliative Care as Viewed by Interprofessional Care Teams: Insights from a Cross-Sectional Survey.Palliative medicine reports · 2025Article
- Why are organisational approvals needed for low-risk staff studies in the UK? Procedures, barriers, and burdens.BMC health services research · 2024Article
- Health care professional recruitment of patients and family carers to palliative care randomised controlled trials: A qualitative multiple case study.Palliative medicine · 2023Article
- Ethical Principles in Digital Palliative Care for Children: The MyPal Project and Experiences Made in Designing a Trustworthy Approach.Frontiers in digital health · 2022Review
- What should we report? Lessons learnt from the development and implementation of serious adverse event reporting procedures in non-pharmacological trials in palliative care.BMC palliative care · 2021Review
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Abstract
backgroundResearch requires high-quality ethical and governance scrutiny and approval. However, when research is conducted across different countries, this can cause challenges due to the differing ethico-legal framework requirements of ethical boards. There is no specific guidance for research which does not involve non-medicinal products.
aimTo describe and address differences in ethical and research governance procedures applied by research ethics committees for non-pharmaceutical palliative care studies including adult participants in collaborative European studies.
designAn online survey analysed using descriptive statistics. SETTING/
participantsEighteen principal investigators in 11 countries conducting one of three European-funded studies.
resultsThere was variation in practice including whether ethical approval was required. The time to gain full approvals differed with the United Kingdom having governance procedures that took the longest time. Written consent was not required in all countries nor were data safety monitoring committees for trials. There were additional differences in relation to other data management issues.
conclusionResearchers need to take the differences in research approval procedures into account when planning studies. Future research is needed to establish European-wide recommendations for policy and practice that dovetail ethical procedures and enhance transnational research collaborations.
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