Awareness of Jordanian Investigators About the Importance of Ethics Review Committees: A Pilot Study.
Protection of study participants is an integral function of the Institutional Review Board (IRB). Recently, great efforts were dedicated to enhance investigators' awareness of ethical principles in conducting human research and to implement reviewing committees' standards in Jordan to ensure the tra...
| Published in: | Science & Engineering Ethics Vol. 26; no. 2; pp. 821 - 832 |
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