we aimed to verify the issue of the ethics audit and its use in the system of accreditation of hospitals. it presents the results of a survey conducted among hospital managers from romania.our article highlights the results of the second part of a research carried out in 2012 on the pertinence and the structure of the ethics audit integrated within the accreditation process of hospitals, accord...

Access to patients and their records for non-clinical purposes has recently come under scrutiny. Research ethics committees control access for research purposes, but audit is explicitly excluded from their remit. Although there is consensus that locally organised audits do not need ethical approval, the status of larger scale audits designed to influence broader practice remains unclear; some j...

BACKGROUND We aimed to verify the issue of the ethics audit and its use in the system of accreditation of hospitals. It presents the results of a survey conducted among hospital managers from Romania. METHODS Our article highlights the results of the second part of a research carried out in 2012 on the pertinence and the structure of the ethics audit integrated within the accreditation proces...

OBJECTIVES To show that a Local Research Ethics Committee (LREC) can carry out an audit of ethical standards in research. To find out if a researcher met certain ethical standards in recruiting subjects for clinical trials and in obtaining their consent. DESIGN Postal questionnaire. SETTING Clinical research by one doctor during one year. SUBJECTS Eleven patients entered in clinical trial...

Until now, medical practice in the United Kingdom has, unlike in medical research, largely resisted ethics committee scrutiny of clinical audit. I support this position. On what grounds do I do so? Are there suYcient diVerences between medical research and medical audit to reliably sustain this thesis? I shall argue that research ethics committees may be operating under philosophical constraint...

The formulation of the problem in this research is how Effect Management Support, Competence, Organizational Culture and Professional Ethics on Effectiveness Internal Audit (Case Study State-Owned Enterprises (BUMN) Palembang City). type used associative research. data are primary data. population study internal audit City as many 32 respondents. Data collection techniques using interviews ques...

A key principle in clinical research is the need to obtain approval from a Research Ethics Committee before commencing a study, and then to obtain consent from each subject enrolled into the study. This tenet is highlighted in the Helsinki Declaration and reinforced in subsequent principles such as Good Clinical Practice/International Committee on Harmonisation. However, not all clinical studie...

This study investigates the nature and extent to which managerial attitudes influence fraud risk perceptions, observations and experiences of audit partners. Using a sample of 5,603 client acceptance and audit continuance assessments at a Big Four audit firm in the Netherlands, this study finds that: (1) manager integrity, honesty, and ethics are considered by audit partners to be of highest im...