Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Subject

Abstract

The authors discussed about Declaration of Helsinki for research and pointed out that Ethical Committee should made its statement for those cases when physician decided to investigate anything involving human subjects. Medical research involving human subjects must conform to generally accepted scientific principles, be based on thorough knowledge of the scientific literature, other relevant sources of information an adequate laboratory and animal experimentation. They pointed out that in Sarajevo are functioning three Ethical Committee’s. First, and the oldest, in the Clinical Center of University, and two on the Medical Faculty and Faculty for Dentistry, University of Sarajevo. They also pointed out that every cantonal center should have had its Ethical Committee, especially in University centers, and the useful model could be the Ethical Committee of Clinical Center of Sarajevo University.