Research Ethics during Pandemics: How IRBs Can Prepare.
Covid-19
human research ethics
informed consent
pandemic risks
research participants
Journal
Ethics & human research
ISSN: 2578-2363
Titre abrégé: Ethics Hum Res
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101738005
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Mar 2023
Mar 2023
Historique:
medline:
29
3
2023
entrez:
28
3
2023
pubmed:
29
3
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
The Covid-19 pandemic has raised a range of complex challenges for the research community in the United States. This essay uses Covid-19 as a model pandemic illness to consider two such issues that have yet to be fully explored in the ethics literature: first, whether the informed consent process should include a discussion of pandemic risks and, if so, how precisely these risks should be conveyed to potential research participants and, second, whether and under what circumstances vaccination status should be taken into consideration when enrolling subjects in non-pandemic-related studies during a pandemic.
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
26-34Informations de copyright
© 2023 by The Hastings Center. All rights reserved.
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