Table 1 Research ethics committee (REC) replies to a fictitious research protocol (Cluster randomized trial without informed consent (IC), case 1 in Additional file 1 ): how they assumed their REC would decide and whether they agreed with the decision, numbers 1 (n of respondents = 18)
REC decision | Own ethical view | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Agreed2 | Somewhat2 | No2 | ||
Accept no informed consent ( IC) | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
IC for intervention from collective | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
IC for data collection from collective | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
IC from patients to collect clinical data | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 |
IC from patients to answer questionnaire | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
Other | 0 | – | – | – |