Risk in emergency research using a waiver of/exception from consent: Implications of a structured approach for institutional review board review

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1104-1112

  McRae, Andrew D ^a   Ackroyd Stolarz, Stacy ^b   Weijer, Charles ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Component analysis; Emergency research; Institutional review board; Research; Research design; Risk analysis

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDLINE; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; RELIABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS;

ALGORITHMS; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; ETHICS COMMITTEES, RESEARCH; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; GUIDELINES; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 27144451194     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2005.04.005     Document Type: Conference Paper

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