The Belmont Report is a report created by the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research. Its full title is the Belmont Report: Ethical Principles and Guidelines for the Protection of Human Subjects of Research, Report of the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research.
The report was issued on 30 September 1978 and published in the Federal Register on 18 April 1979. The Report took its name from the Belmont Conference Center where the document was drafted in part. The Belmont Conference Center, once a part of the Smithsonian Institution, is in Elkridge, Maryland, 10 miles south of Baltimore, and until the end of 2010 was operated by Howard Community College.
The purpose of The Belmont Report is to protect participants and subjects in the clinical trials and research studies involving ethics and health care research. The Belmont Report consists of 3 principles which are justice which is the requirement to acknowledge autonomy and the requirement to protect those with diminished autonomy, beneficence and respect for persons.
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