¿Por qué auditar a los comités de ética en investigación?

Estela Quiroz

doi:10.17843/rpmesp.2010.273.1504

Authors

Estela Quiroz Médica oftalmóloga, docente de ética y metodología de la investigación, Coordinadora de la Red Peruana de Comités de Ética de la Investigación. Hospital Nacional Hipólito Unanue. Lima, Perú.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17843/rpmesp.2010.273.1504

Keywords:

Ethics Committees, Management audit, Quality control, Clinical trials as topic, Peru

Abstract

Ethics committees in biomedical research have the responsibility to ensure the protection of human participants in the studies. In order to improve the quality of their work they must undergo audit procedures commissioned by the sponsors and inspections done by the regulatory authorities. Through these procedures, improvement of their functions should be guaranteed, so they can optimize their tasks and accomplish in the best way the purpose for which they were created.