SPECIAL SECTION: ETHICAL LIMITS IN HUMAN SUBJECTS RESEARCH | |
Committee for Oversight of Research Involving the Dead (CORID):
Insights from the First Year
LAUREL L.
YASKO
a1
, MARK
WICCLAIR
a2
and MICHAEL A.
DeVITA
a3
a1 Laurel L. Yasko, B.S.N., C.C.R.C., is
Director of the Office of Clinical Research, Health Sciences, and
Coordinator of the Committee for Oversight of Research Involving the
Dead (CORID), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania
a2 Mark Wicclair, Ph.D., is Professor of
Philosophy and Adjunct Professor of Community Medicine, West
Virginia University, and Adjunct Professor of Medicine, Part-Time
Instructor of Bioethics, and Center for Bioethics and Health Law
Faculty, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania
a3 Michael A. DeVita, M.D., is Associate
Professor of Critical Care Medicine and Internal Medicine and Chair of
the UPMC Ethics Committee, University of Pittsburgh School of
Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Research involving the dead has not been regulated, and little, if
any, institutional oversight has been provided. As a result, the
numbers and types of research projects involving the dead are at best
poorly characterized and at worst, unknown. The University of
Pittsburgh instituted a mechanism for oversight of such research in
June 2002. In this article, we report the experience of that oversight
body, the Committee for Oversight of Research Involving the Dead (CORID),
during its first 18 months.
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