Measuring inconsistency in research ethics committee review.
Samantha TraceSimon Erik KolstoePublished in: BMC medical ethics (2017)
ShED exercises are effective in identifying inconsistency between ethics committees and we describe a scoring method that could be used to quantify this. However, whilst a level of inconsistency is probably inevitable in research ethics committee reviews, studies must move beyond the ShED methodology to understand why inconsistency occurs, and what an acceptable level of inconsistency might be.