Research Programs with Human Participants Committee

The committee's area of work is ensuring that clinical research planned to be carried out in our hospitals is conducted within the framework of patient safety and ethical rules. In this context, the committee carries out the following activities:

• - Determining the measures necessary to protect people taking part in research conducted at the institution and ensuring that these measures are put into practice,
• - Determining the institution's ethical professional rules and ensuring that employees are informed of these rules verbally and in writing and comply with them,
• - Defining the departments of the hospital in which research can be conducted,
• - Defining the qualifications that the principal investigator, other researchers and research sponsors must have,
• - Ensuring sponsors' compliance with quality and safety processes,
• - Ensuring the privacy of research participants' data is protected,
• - Ensuring that the duties and functions of sponsors and contract research organizations involved in research are clearly defined,
• - Ensuring that the research evaluation process is planned, implemented and recorded,
• - Ensuring that all research is reviewed for quality and patient safety at least once a year,
• - Identifying conflicts of interest related to research (financial or non-financial) and managing them,
• - Ensuring that research programs are integrated into the organization's quality and patient safety program,
• - Defining the processes for ensuring that patients are informed in detail and for obtaining their consent.