The Role of Ethics Commission for national Health Services Research- a Cross Sectional Study of the Expense of obtaining Secondary Votes on the basis of DACAPO- Study

摘要

Background: Health services research (HSR) is of fundamental importance for the continuous improvement of preventive, diagnostic or therapeutic measures. The conduct of multi-centre HSR studies requires that ethical approval by Institutional review boards (IRB's) is obtained. We documented the effort, the complexity and the man power necessary to obtain secondary ethical approval for a national HSR in Germany (Surviving the Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome [DACAPO-study]).