Observational study of 353 applications to London
multicentre research ethics committee 1997-2000.
"Responses of Local Research Ethics Committees to a Study with Approval from a
Multicentre Research Ethics Committee." British Medical Journal 320 (7243): 1182-3.
The study was approved by the North London
Multicentre Research Ethics Committee and the Trustees of East London Mosque.
As experts from the West Midlands
Multicentre Research Ethics Committee point out, important trials which do not have financial support from pharmaceutical companies may fail to gain interest from doctors if they do not offer cash incentives.
Dr Jammi Rao, chairman of West Midlands
Multicentre Research Ethics Committee, and Louis Sant Cassia, chairman of the Coventry Research Ethics Committee, wrote: ``The size of payment and not the buzz of research is what motivates doctors to join such trials.''