An independent data monitoring committee will be established, with terms of reference.
An independent data monitoring committee will be established, with terms of reference jointly defined between trial investigators and the independent committee members prior to study commencement.
Turnbull has promised to move quickly to establish the terms of reference and appoint an appropriate commissioner, with many saying the commissioner should be Indigenous, given that 96% of all youths in detention in the NT are Indigenous, according to an Amnesty International report.
In 2007, AVSAG was the first NZ VSAG to establish formal terms of reference that were signed by member organisations (Cronin 2008), and this updated VSAG incorporated a wider range of representatives from Auckland, Waikato and Massey Universities, GNS Science, MetService, the Kestrel Group, as well as local and national CDEM representatives (Smith 2009).
In the past, most committees of inquiry have been established with broad terms of reference, public hearings and sometimes High Court powers.
The BC GN Network has an established set of terms of reference (see Additional file 1), and is comprised of a formal steering committee of stakeholders interested in GN, including physicians, researchers, pharmacists, nurses and data analysts.
In the interval, Stangos had started to establish the distinctive terms of reference that would serve him through a succession of London offices and homes.
"A royal commission, established with the very wide terms of reference … would run for many years, cost hundreds of millions of dollars and at its conclusion present a report.
