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The Ethics Committee (EC) is inspired by the values and founding principles of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, where it was established in 1988 and, today with the establishment of Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli, it wants to be even more an integrative service of the clinical-assistance work to achive excellence in the care of every person who is a guest and user of our facilities.

The EC is an advisory body, whose members, from different areas of expertise and experience, are mainly called upon to assess the ethical conditions of trial protocols and to verify that the safety, integrity and rights of patients participating in the studies are safeguarded.

Ethics Committee, the main direction

The aims of the Ethics Committee can be traced back to 3 main directions:

to give public assurance of respect for life - from conception to the natural end of life - for the health, and for the rights of the individual within the clinical practice and research;
facilitate, especially in particularly difficult cases, caregivers' choices and collaboration with patients in the information-deliberative process;
to overcome the fragmentation and complexity of medical specialties through their reading in the anthropological unity of the human person and particularly the suffering person, in the goal of the best quality of care and research.

Finally, our Ethics Committee is reconstituted in accordance with Ministerial Decree 08/02/2013 (Official Gazette No. 96, 24/04/2013), which introduced new criteria for the composition and functioning of ethics committees.