Research ethics paperwork: what is the plot we seem to have lost?

Jamrozik, Konrad professor

Department of Primary Care and Social Medicine, Imperial College, London W6 8RP [email protected]

Accepted 8 June 2004

Editorial by Warlow

I thank Richard Ashcroft for comments on an early draft of this manuscript.

Competing interests: KJ is a member of the Riverside Local Research Ethics Committee, to which he provides advice on study design and statistical matters on a paid contract basis.

BMJ 329(7460):p 286-287, July 31, 2004.

The standardisation of applications to local research ethics committees seems likely to make ethical approval less efficient and more time consuming for everyone