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Standards of practice in empirical bioethics research: Towards a consensus
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Background
This paper reports the process and outcome of a consensus finding project, which began with a meeting at the Brocher Foundation in May 2015. The project sought to generate and reach consensus on standards of practice for Empirical Bioethics research. The project involved 16 academics from 5 different European Countries, with a range of disciplinary backgrounds.
Methods
The consensus process used a modified Delphi approach.
Results
Consensus was reached on 15 standards of practice, organised into 6 domains of research practice (Aims, Questions, Integration, Conduct of Empirical Work, Conduct of Normative Work; Training & Expertise).
Conclusions
Through articulating these standards we outline a position that encourages responses, and through those responses we will be able to identify points of agreement and contestation that will drive the conversation forward. In that vein, we would encourage researchers, funders and journals to engage with what we have proposed, and respond to us, so that our community of practice of empirical bioethics research can develop and evolve further.
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1186/s12910-018-0304-3
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- Publisher:
- BioMed Central
- Journal:
- BMC Medical Ethics More from this journal
- Volume:
- 19
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 68
- Publication date:
- 2018-06-10
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-05-29
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1472-6939
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1472-6939
- Pmid:
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29986689
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English
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pubs:869751
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pubs:869751
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869751
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2018-10-05
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- Ives et al
- Copyright date:
- 2018
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- © The Author(s). 2018 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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