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Table 1 Identification of, and contact with, competent ethics committees, and confirmation of approval in relation to the number of reported items

From: Identification of ethics committees based on authors’ disclosures: cross-sectional study of articles published in the European Journal of Anaesthesiology and a survey of ethics committees

  

#items reported in article

 
 

Total

5

≤4

p-value

Articles requiring ethics approval (category I)a

74 (100%)

34 (100%)

40 (100%)

 

Articles for which the competent ethics committee could be identified

44/74 (59%)

25/34 (74%)

19/40 (48%)

0.023

Articles for which the competent ethics committee could be contacted

36/74 (49%)

18/34 (53%)

18/40 (45%)

0.496

Articles for which the competent ethics committee confirmed approval of the study protocol

24/74 (32%)

15/34 (44%)

9/40 (23%)

0.048

  1. aAccording to Swiss Federal Act on Research involving Human Beings