Hospital or other institutional committees established to protect the welfare of research subjects (based on MeSH-2007); use 'clinical ethics committees' for committees dealing with the ethical dimension of patient care in health care institutions
UF:
institutional review boards
IRBs
REC
Conc:
B: Research ethics committees
E: research ethics committees
I: comité d'éthique de la recherche
M: Ethics Committees, Research (D028744)