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PREPARED Recommendations for expediting ethics review during times of crisis

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What is this about?

This guidance offers practical guidance to swiftly yet responsibly review research during public health emergencies. It integrates insights from various PREPARED workstreams, WHO guidance, and others to propose an accelerated ethics review model. This includes pre-reviewing generic protocols, forming dedicated rapid-response ethics committees, and employing streamlined decision-making procedures. It emphasizes proportionality matching review intensity to urgency and collaboration between national and regional review bodies.

The recommendations also call for clear communication channels with public health authorities, multi-country coordination, and advance planning for data and sample sharing. By outlining these measures, the document aims to maintain ethical rigor without slowing critical research during crises, ensuring participant protection, scientific integrity, and public trust even under intense time pressure.

Why is this important?

This guidance is crucial because it enables faster ethics reviews during health crises without sacrificing ethical standards. By streamlining processes and promoting collaboration, it ensures urgent research can proceed quickly while protecting participants and maintaining scientific integrity. This balance is vital for generating trustworthy, timely evidence needed to respond effectively to emergencies and uphold public confidence.

Click here to open the guideline.

https://prepared-project.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Recommendations-for-expediting-ethics-review-during-times-of-crisis.pdf

For whom is this important?

RECsResearch Ethics Committees

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 |Title=PREPARED Recommendations for expediting ethics review during times of crisis
 |Has Related Initiative=Initiative:50e236b6-b669-4c30-8c7c-837267f44278
-|Is About=The PREPARED "Recommendations for expediting ethics review during times of crisis" presents seven major challenges research ethics committees experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic and provides recommendations for effective fast-tracking of study protocols as well as a good practice example for each challenge.
+|Is About=This guidance offers practical guidance to swiftly yet responsibly review research during public health emergencies. It integrates insights from various PREPARED workstreams, WHO guidance, and others to propose an accelerated ethics review model. This includes pre-reviewing generic protocols, forming dedicated rapid-response ethics committees, and employing streamlined decision-making procedures. It emphasizes proportionality matching review intensity to urgency and collaboration between national and regional review bodies.
-<span lang="EN-GB">Whilst the guidance was developed for crisis situations, it is also likely to be helpful during routine work of editors, publishers and research ethics committees.</span>
+The recommendations also call for clear communication channels with public health authorities, multi-country coordination, and advance planning for data and sample sharing. By outlining these measures, the document aims to maintain ethical rigor without slowing critical research during crises, ensuring participant protection, scientific integrity, and public trust even under intense time pressure.
-|Important Because=During the COVID-19 pandemic, most research focused on the virus was fast-tracked but often in a fragmented manner. In particular, research ethics committees struggled with requests to fast-track pandemic research because of increased workloads, new remote workflows, uncertainty regarding the risks and benefits of COVID-19 research, a lack of resources and training, and study and review duplication.
+|Important Because=This guidance is crucial because it enables faster ethics reviews during health crises without sacrificing ethical standards. By streamlining processes and promoting collaboration, it ensures urgent research can proceed quickly while protecting participants and maintaining scientific integrity. This balance is vital for generating trustworthy, timely evidence needed to respond effectively to emergencies and uphold public confidence.
 Click [https://prepared-project.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Recommendations-for-expediting-ethics-review-during-times-of-crisis.pdf here] to open the guideline.

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