When is a REC not a REC? When it is a gatekeeper:

Research Ethics

NathanEmmerich¹ 

关键词: duplicate review;    gatekeeper;    institutional review board;    IRB;    REC;    research ethics committee;   

DOI  :  10.1177/1747016116651668

学科分类：医学（综合）

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

This essay responds to an article, ‘Variation in university research ethics review’, published in this issue. It argues that the authors of that paper do not fully distinguish the usual function of university research ethics committees (RECs) from that of a gatekeeper. The latter term more accurately describes the task they happen to have asked them to fulfil in the course of conducting some empirical research. Whilst they are not alone in making it, the result of this conflation is that the reflections they offer are misguided. In this short comment I briefly discuss the distinction between a REC and a gatekeeper, and indicate how it impacts on the proposals sketched by Vadeboncoeur et al.

【 授权许可】

CC BY