However, the feasibility (samples size, resources, ethics) and the clinical relevance of the results should be evaluated before designing any new study.
The fellows observed that the scope and practice of the clinical ethicists included four primary areas of focus: building capacity, acting as a resource, organizational ethics and scholarly work.
One is The First Draft Collection, a group of social media journalism experts who will team up to develop a new website launching this fall dedicated to video verification resources, including ethics training, tools, research, and case studies derived from the biggest news stories of the moment.
This would include the sharing of training resources (around ethics, research conduct and community research literacy) across disease entities.
Canadian Evaluation Society CESS) Online publications include resources on ethics, international co-operation, certification etc.; the CES Newsletter; the CES Annual Report; and abstracts of the Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation.
The existing 33 RECs registered with the National Health Research Ethics Council (NHREC) currently are not equally capacitated and hence differ in terms of their agendas, financing, resources and ethics capacity training.
Ethical issues common to rural communities include limited economic resources; reduced health status; limited availability and accessibility of healthcare services; cultural and personal values; dual and overlapping professional-patient/family relationships; confidentiality; care-giver stress; and few resources for ethics consultations [ 5, 6].
Moreover, the bioethics agenda has expanded to include the subjects of resource allocation, organizational ethics and public health ethics, among others.
HECs and ECSs need to accept that the very problematic behaviors of healthcare professionals and patterns of health care delivery are can be a vital resource for clinical ethics to bring effective ethical improvements into patient care.
From the Ethics Resource Center's (ERC) 2000 National Business Ethics Survey we know that effective ethics programs make a significant positive difference for employees.
As the official Rama Plaza death toll continues to rise I am reminded of a discussion some 15 years ago about global corruption at the board of the U.S. Ethics Resource Center where the ERC's then-chairman and head of Merck, Raymond Gilmartin, said of his firm, "We will not do business in Bangladesh.
