research ethics committee
- research ethics committee
(in Britain) a group including lay people, medical practitioners, and other experts set up to monitor research investigations that involve the use of human subjects. It is responsible for ensuring that patients are adequately informed of the procedures involved in a research project (including the use of dummy or placebo treatments as controls), that the tests and/or therapies are safe, and that no-one is pressurized into participating. Local research ethics committees (LRECs) oversee research carried out entirely in one locality. There are also multicentre research ethics committees (MRECs), which oversee research carried out in a large number of centres.
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