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Ethics Committee

Mission

History

The Bordet Institute Ethics Committee was set up on 7 September 1978.
The 12 August 1994 Royal Order legally sets the regulations of the hospitals Ethics Committees.
The Ethics Committee is the independent body that the article 70 ter of the law on hospitals deals with.
Link to the Belgian Law on Hospitals : http://www.abhbvz.be/francais/loihop/titre3.html

 

Mission

1) provide support and advice concerning the ethics aspects of the hospital care practice;
2) participate when taking a decision relative to individual cases, about ethics;
3) give its opinion about every single experimental protocol involving humans.

The request can be made by every member of the hospital staff or of the group of hospitals and by every physician.
The Committee opinions and advice are confidential and not binding; moreover, a reasoned report must present them to the applicant exclusively and reflect the members' different points of view.
The Committee can, through a reasoned decision, refuse to respond to the request.
Click here for more information about the 7 May 2004 law on experiments on the human being relative to the clinical trials on drugs taken by humans.

 

Internal regulation : click here

 

Submission of files and fees :

Please contact the secretariat of the Principal Investigator before submitting your files to the Ethics Committee.

 

Calendar

The Bordet Institute Ethics Committee meets on Thursday, twice a month.
According to the demand, it can meet each week.

 

Other information (hospital ethics)

- Clinical trials : click here
- Patient charter : click here

 

Links to other sites relative to the hospital ethics :

- Belgian Law on Hospitals : http://www.abhbvz.be/francais/loihop/titre3.html
- Click here for more information about the 7 May 2004 law on experiments on the human being relative to the clinical trials on drugs taken by humans.

 

Person in Charge : Dr Thierry Gil

Checking of this page : 11/2010