To facilitate ethical and social acceptability in a more strategic fashion and to generate legitimacy for research and innovation, new approaches to the governance of S&T have been defined.
The benefit of a standardised layout is that it facilitates ethical and regulatory review and makes subsequent adaptive protocol changes easy to document and follow.
Lind and Smith (2008) for example, acknowledged how AI can facilitate ethical community health nursing by promoting action that is consistent with strengths-based community values.
Importantly, the health system deficiencies alluded to by study participants would need to be addressed in order to facilitate ethical nursing practice.
A high degree of innovation will be required of ELSI researchers to engender trust, advance the field, and help facilitate ethical genomic research.
This may also help to foster research and the development of new products, maintain public confidence in pharmaceuticals and medicine, and facilitate ethical decision making among various stakeholders [ 35, 39, 40].
This tension between facilitating ethical genomic research while providing more critical assessment of the advances being made was a major theme of the ELSI Congress and will be an important challenge facing ELSI researchers.
As ocular gene transfer clinical trials for hereditary retinopathies increase in number and reach phase III, attention must be directed at facilitating ethical communications of risks and potential benefits for recruitment of clinical trial participants.
We recommend the development and institutionalization of new approaches that build on existing structures, such as a two-step process, to facilitate ethical review of QI/QIR and promote learning health care systems within a rapidly changing health care environment.
Thus, to further facilitate the ethical review process, we requested participation in the workshop by REC members and support staff of all research institutions to which the supported researchers belonged.
