Membership recruitment and training in health care ethics committees: Results from a national pilot survey.

Unlabelled: This pilot study reports on a survey regarding recruitment, appointment, and training of members for health care ethics committees (HCECs).

Background: Past studies have examined HCECs, but have focused on the roles of the committees and the broad makeup of membership. Thus, our study fills an important knowledge gap in trends of membership recruitment and appointment processes employed by HCECs to comprise their membership.

Genomic research with the newly dead: a crossroads for ethics and policy.

Recent advances in next generation sequencing along with high hopes for genomic medicine have inspired interest in genomic research with the newly dead. However, applicable law does not adequately determine ethical or policy responses to such research. In this paper we propose that such research stands at a crossroads between other more established biomedical clinical and research practices.

Biobanks in the United States: how to identify an undefined and rapidly evolving population.

As part of a larger organizational study, we sought to survey biobanks in the United States. However, we encountered two problems with this population. First, no common definition of biobanks exists.