TY - JOUR
T1 - Short Communication
T2 - Combining Ethics With Efficiency—Israel Defense Forces' Experience in Clinical Trials During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic
AU - Muginshtein-Simkovitch, Evgenia
AU - Kayouf, Raeed
AU - Twig, Gilad
AU - Ketko, Itay
AU - Bader, Tarif
AU - Fink, Noam
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2021.
PY - 2021/7
Y1 - 2021/7
N2 - The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, first reported in China, soon spread worldwide, has evolved into one of the most complex global public health crises the world has encountered in the last several decades. Conducting military medical research is vital to study the unique influences of military service conditions on soldiers' health and to improve the medical response in various emergency periods. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Medical Corps maintains an Institutional Review Board (IRB) which reviews clinical studies conducted within the IDF. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the IRB of the IDF had to rapidly implement procedural modifications in order to comply with expanding urgent demands for research without compromising ethical standards. The ethical dilemmas and the IDF policy and perspective are outlined in this article.
AB - The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, first reported in China, soon spread worldwide, has evolved into one of the most complex global public health crises the world has encountered in the last several decades. Conducting military medical research is vital to study the unique influences of military service conditions on soldiers' health and to improve the medical response in various emergency periods. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Medical Corps maintains an Institutional Review Board (IRB) which reviews clinical studies conducted within the IDF. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the IRB of the IDF had to rapidly implement procedural modifications in order to comply with expanding urgent demands for research without compromising ethical standards. The ethical dilemmas and the IDF policy and perspective are outlined in this article.
KW - Institutional Review Board
KW - Israel Defense Forces
KW - Medical Corps
KW - coronavirus disease 2019
KW - ethics
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85103640587&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/15562646211007220
DO - 10.1177/15562646211007220
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C2 - 33819122
AN - SCOPUS:85103640587
SN - 1556-2646
VL - 16
SP - 193
EP - 199
JO - Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics
JF - Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics
IS - 3
ER -