Governance Network of Ethics Committees in the Face of COVID-19
Keywords:
Accessibility, Ethics Committees, COVID-19, Sustainability, Transparency.Abstract
Ethics committees are the result of a learning process between the parties involved. The evaluative function of the projects focuses attention on transparency and accessibility to knowledge, but justified by the exceptional scenario represented by the pandemic. Therefore, the objective of the present work was to compare the structure of theoretical dimensions of bioethics with respect to the practical dimensions evaluated by expert judges. A cross-sectional, correlational and exploratory study was carried out with a sample selected for its bioethical practice, as well as for its updating and specialization in review of bioethical documents. The results confirm transparency as a guiding axis, although accessibility is far from being part of a governance system that is rather focused on the sustainability of the evaluation committees. For its part, the state of the art highlights that these findings are inherent to an exceptionality that this work places as the beginning of transparency and sustainability.
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