%0 Journal Article
%T The risk-benefit task of research ethics committees: An evaluation of current approaches and the need to incorporate decision studies methods
%A Rosemarie DLC Bernabe
%A Ghislaine JMW van Thiel
%A Jan AM Raaijmakers
%A Johannes JM van Delden
%J BMC Medical Ethics
%D 2012
%I BioMed Central
%R 10.1186/1472-6939-13-6
%X By looking at decision studies, we see that both procedure-level approaches conflate the various risk-benefit tasks, i.e., risk-benefit assessment, risk-benefit evaluation, risk treatment, and decision making. This conflation makes the RECs¡¯ risk-benefit task confusing, if not impossible. We further realize that RECs are not meant to do all the risk-benefit tasks; instead, RECs are meant to evaluate risks and benefits, appraise risk treatment suggestions, and make the final decision.As such, research ethics would benefit from looking beyond the procedure-level approaches and allowing disciplines like decision studies to be involved in the discourse on RECs¡¯ risk-benefit task.
%K Risk benefit assessment
%K Ethics committee
%K IRB
%K Decision theory
%K Net risk test
%K Component analysis
%U http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6939/13/6/abstract