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Legislation aims to ensure that clinical research uses competent methods, produces reliable results and is ethically acceptable.

At universities of applied sciences, the job of ethics committees is to conduct preliminary ethical reviews of research in the human sciences.

Ethical review means scrutiny and evaluation of a research plan in advance in the light of the ethical practices.

Besides TENK there are other advisory boards on research ethics in Finland.

In medical research an ethical review is always required, in human sciences review applies only to precisely defined research configurations.