Accreditation of Health Research Ethics Committees of Mendoza Province

Abstract

As the National Civil and Commercial Code incorporated the requirement that all research on human beings must be reviewed
by an accredited Research Ethics Committee (REC), and the Directorate of Health Research (DIS) took actions to strengthen the regulation and surveillance of RECs by provincial health authorities, a series of interventions were introduced by the Directorate  of Research, Science and Technology (DICyT) of the Ministry of Health of the Province of Mendoza. The aim of this  article is to describe the interventions implemented for the accreditation and regulation of RECs in Mendoza through a  collaborative work carried out with the DIS.