Status Analysis on the Biobanks Ethical Management of Public Hospitals in Shanghai / 中国医学伦理学

ABSTRACT

Objective:To analyze the status of ethical management of biobanks in Shanghai public hospitals. Methods:A questionnaire survey on ethical management of biobanks was conducted in 9 representative ethics com-mittees, which were established in public hospitals with biobanks in Shanghai. Results: The ethics committees in Shanghai public hospitals had paid relatively high attention to ethical review of protocols were related to biobanks. Nonetheless, the ethical supervision and training on biobanks in Shanghai public hospitals should be enhanced. Con-clusionThe unified ethical guideline on biobanks should be developed in Shanghai for strengthening the standard-ized ethical management and ethics training to promote the development and use of biological samples library re-sources.