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eMJA: Comment: Privacy legislation and research It is unfortunate that a valuable research project has apparently been made more difficult or delayed by the combination of complex new privacy law and longer-standing inefficiencies in the ethical review of multicentre research proposals. Both are issues with which the Australian Health Ethics Committee (AHEC) is grappling at present. Multicentre research was identified as a significant issue in the review that led to the revised 1999 National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Research Involving Humans.1 The Statement makes it clear that researchers have a role in negotiating with human research ethics committees and institutions to seek agreement that the ethical and scientific assessment of one committee or institution will be accepted by other sites. The National Statement equally empowers ethics committees to minimise unnecessary duplication. Ethics committees have been very slow to grasp the opportunities offered by the 1999 National Statement for reasons that may include the past practice of insisting that each committee make its own assessment. Initiatives are now in train in New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia and Queensland to develop different forms of centralised assessment, but the benefits may take time to be realised. AHEC, through its bulletins and workshops for ethics committee members, has repeatedly reminded committees how to simplify multicentre review, but traditional practices appear to have obstructed this message. Full Article: http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/177_09_041102/breen_041102.html |
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