Practice and thinking on improving the ability of hospital ethical review: Take the Affiliated Taizhou People′s Hospital of Nanjing Medical University as an example / 中华医学科研管理杂志

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Objective:To explore the ways and methods to improve the ability of hospital ethical review and ensure the quality and efficiency of ethical review.Methods:By consulting the literature and combining the practical experience of the construction of the ethics committee and the ethical review work in the hospital, analyze the present situation of ethical review in our country, and deeply analyze the main problems existing in the work of ethical review in hospitals.Results:The quality and efficiency of ethical review can be effectively improved by implementing centralized management, optimizing work processes, establishing emergency response systems, opening green channels, optimizing the composition of committee members, strengthening ethical training and assessment, establishing emergency response systems, opening green channels, strengthening pre-review communication, establishing emergency response systems, opening green channels, strengthening formal review, increasing publicity, and improving ethical awareness.Conclusions:Clarifing the division of responsibilities and strengthen multi-department interaction can effectively improve the efficiency of ethics review. Optimizing the structure of ethics committee, strengthen the training and assessment of members, can effectively enhance the ability of ethics committee review. Unifing the list of documents, optimizing the work flow and the way of examination can effectively shorten the period of ethical examination. It is suggested that continuous ethical training and assessment should be carried out, that an information-based platform system should be used to achieve dynamic supervision, and that a certification system and assessment mechanism for ethics committees should be established at the national level, to promote the improvement of the ability of ethical review.