Do university ethics committees adequately protect public health researchers?

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 576-579

  Dickson Swift, Virginia ^a   James, Erica L ^a   Kippen, Sandra ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; HUMAN; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL SCHOOL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RELIABILITY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 28944454751     PISSN: 13260200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-842X.2005.tb00254.x     Document Type: Article

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