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Research governance lessons from the National Placebo Initiative.

Health Law Review

| March 22, 2009 | Sampson, Heather; Weijer, Charles; Pullman, Daryl | COPYRIGHT 2009 Health Law Institute. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

1. Introduction

For at least the last two decades, Canada has been an international leader in research ethics. Canadian scholars have written seminal articles that now fill standard texts in the field. For example, in the authoritative collection Ethical and Regulatory Aspects of Clinical Research, fully eighteen of 86 articles included in the volume were authored in Canada. (1) In the realm of research ethics policy, Canada's contributions are also many. The Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans (2) (TCPS), introduced a decade ago and currently under revision, is widely admired for its scope and substance. More recently the ...

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