Ethics – Effective compliance management

The world of ethics is all about risk management.

The National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research has raised the bar for all parties involved in research: researchers, reviewers, HRECs and their advisors, ethics officers and research offices. Ensuring that applicants have addressed all ethical issues relevant to their research project while facilitating full and effective review has become more complex.

One of the keys to effective ethics management is to reduce the burden on individual researchers. RME online Ethics forms do this by making forms as intuitive and as flexible as possible, auto-populating forms with known data to eliminate repetitive data entry, and ensuring that the ethics committee has all information necessary to make an informed decision on first review.

Through RME's ethics eForm, assessors and committee members have online access to the complete protocols and all attached documents and can identify issues, request amendments and make comments for consideration by the applicant or committee.

For effective ethics management, RME's online Ethics eForms enable you to:

• Communicate between all parties, including co-researchers, reviewers, assessors and committee members
• Receive timely reminders for renewal requirements
• Define the risk assessment and calculate it on the fly
• Accomodate any application type or risk levels with a flexible design
• Manage the workflow of the processing of the form
• Store the application data to ensure compliance

Contact us or see our brochure for more information about RME's Ethics solutions.