Developing the ethics of implementation research in health

Implementation Science

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Gopichandran, Vijayaprasad ^a   Luyckx, Valerie A ^b   Biller Andorno, Nikola ^b   Fairchild, Amy ^c   Singh, Jerome ^d   Tran, Nhan ^e   Saxena, Abha ^e   Launois, Pascal ^e   Reis, Andreas ^e   Maher, Dermot ^e   Vahedi, Mahnaz ^e  

^a Department of Pathology ESI Medical College and Post Graduate Institute of Medical Science and Research (PGIMSR)   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^e WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AWARENESS; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; EXPECTATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; RECOGNITION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; RESEARCH ETHICS;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; ETHICS, RESEARCH; HUMANS; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 85003451583     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17485908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13012-016-0527-y     Document Type: Article

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