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- Published on: 22 April 2020
- Published on: 22 April 2020Ethics in Implementation Research
Implementation research is crucial to determining effectiveness and appropriateness of interventions that are urgently needed in many contexts, constituting "global health". There is, however, an ongoing surprising relative lack of discussion on the need for appropriate understand of the ethical implications of Implementation research. Ethics committees and researchers are often not well versed in the ethics implications, and how these differ form traditional clinical research. the potential for unintended harm is great in the vulnerable circumstances wheer implementation research is often conducted. It is vital that if implementation research is conducted, ethical implications are considered throughout the process (i.e. continuing throughout the implementation itself and post-research). These issues have been laid out in an online teaching tool (by TDR/Global health Ethics Unit at WHO) and in the following publications:
https://www.who.int/tdr/publications/year/2019/ethics-in-ir-course/en/
https://implementationscience.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13012-...
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(19)30310-9/fulltextConflict of Interest:
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