ethics committees
Research approval boards
Ethics committees are groups convened to review and guide decisions involving moral questions, particularly in medicine and research.
Hospital ethics committees help resolve dilemmas about patient care—whether to withdraw life support, how to handle conflicting wishes between families and medical teams.
Institutional review boards (a type of ethics committee) evaluate proposed research to protect human subjects: The ethics committee rejected the study design as too risky.
Corporate and governmental bodies may also have ethics committees to investigate misconduct or establish standards of conduct.
- patient confidentialityProtected health information principle
- informed consentPermission given with understanding
- complianceAdhering to requirements
- whistleblower protectionLaws shielding those who report misconduct
- bioethicsMoral philosophy for medicine
medical malpractice · beneficence · duty of care · Nuremberg Code · Helsinki Declaration · vulnerable populations · do no harm · human rights advocacy · risk-benefit analysis · integrity · autonomy · moral compass · impartiality · scientific integrity · whistleblowing · code of conduct · conflict of interest · red flags
- committeesspecial committees, joint committees, subcommittees, subcommittee, ad hoc committees
- oversightoversight committees, oversight board, review, auditors, supervisor
- Psychology GroupsAPA
- accountabilityaccountability, responsibility, accountable, take responsibility, answerability
- advocacy groupsadvocacy group, lobbying groups, lobby group, NAACP, lobby groups
- government transparencyFOIA, freedom of information, sunshine laws, public records, open data
ethics committeescriminal courts
Forums adjudicating offenses
law enforcement · regulatory agencies · tribunals · prosecutors · police
ethics committeesblack ops
Unacknowledged covert activities