The Importance of Ethics Review

Evidenced-based guidelines, standards, processes, and practices are essential to vascular access practice. [...]The Journal of the Association for Vascular Access (JAVA) is dedicated to disseminating the best evidenced-based practice to our readership. There was no treatment for syphilis when the study began, but when penicillin became the standard treatment in 1947 the medicine was withheld as a part of the treatment for both the experimental group and the control group.2 To avoid such ill treatment of subjects in the future, the Belmont Report stipulated respect for human participants, doing no harm, and justice.1 IRBs are charged with seeing to it that research plans conform to these national and international policies.