ARECCI Ethics Decision-Support Tools for Projects

Two ethics decision-support guides have been developed by the Alberta Research Ethics Community Consensus Initiative (ARECCI) Network to assist leaders and organizations in their projects. They are the ARECCI Guidelines for Quality Improvement and Evaluation Projects and the ARECCI Ethics Screening Tool.

These decision-support guides are a resource to assist integration of appropriate ethics considerations in projects to protect participants, whether the project is evaluation, quality improvement (QI), quality assurance (QA), or research.

Adding the ARECCI Ethics Guidelines for Quality Improvement and Evaluation and the ARECCI Screening Tool to your project management toolkit will provide a quick and easy system of prompts to help you with:

a) Identification of ethical considerations to be incorporated in a project, and

b) Assessment of a project to determine appropriate review requirements.

Together, these two decision-support guides can assist you in evaluating your projects to ensure that ethics considerations are included and that you have done due diligence to protect people and their health information.

To identify and integrate appropriate ethics considerations into your project, please refer to the ARECCI Ethics Guidelines for Quality Improvement and Evaluation Projects.

Then determine the level of risk for project participants and appropriate ethics review requirements by proceeding to the ARECCI Ethics Screening Tool.