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Characteristics of ethics committees |
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| Medical School |
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| Characteristics |
Mean ± SD |
Range |
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| Total members |
10.4 ± 2.6 |
6–22 |
| External members (outside of medical school but within same college/university) |
1.3 ± 1.3 |
0–6 |
| External members (outside of same college/university) |
1.4 ± 1.1 |
0–5 |
| Female members |
0.6 ± 0.9 |
0–6 |
| Discipline of EC members |
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| Basic medicine |
2.7 ± 1.1 |
1–8 |
| Clinical medicine |
4.0 ± 1.6 |
1–8 |
| Other medicine |
0.7 ± 1.1 |
0–4 |
| Nursing |
0.3 ± 0.6 |
0–3 |
| Other healthcare field |
0.1 ± 0.4 |
0–3 |
| Law |
1.0 ± 0.6 |
0–3 |
| Philosophy/Ethics |
0.5 ± 0.6 |
0–3 |
| Other Humanities and/or Social Sciences |
0.4 ± 0.7 |
0–3 |
| Administrative |
0.2 ± 0.6 |
0–4 |
| Other |
0.5 ± 0.9 |
0–4 |
Akabayashi et al. BMC Medical Ethics 2007 8:8 doi:10.1186/1472-6939-8-8 |
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