Caracterización de la dinámica del trabajo del Comité de Ética del Hospital Universitario General Calixto García durante el año 2015

Introduction: At present, all research carried out is subject to reviews, evaluations and ethical considerations that guarantee the respect of the subjects that will participate in a study, even if no intervention is made on them. For this reason, the Scientific Research EthicsCommittees (CIS) are created and are authorities that demand and evaluate compliance with ethical and moral standardsin biomedical research. Objective: To characterize the dynamics of the work of the University Hospital “General Calixto Garcia” in 2015. Method: A cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out on all the files sent to the CEI from January, 2015 to March, 2016. A database was created with the program Microsoft Excel 2010 for Windows Seven. Absolute frequencies and percentages were calculated for the qualitative variables. Results: During the year 2015, 74 papers were submitted to the CEI (Completion of Residency Projects, Institutional Projects and Clinical Trials) for the analysis of the projects, and 72 were evaluated for 97.29%. The delay between the evaluation of the projects was 28 days minimum of 2 days and maximum of 34 days. The presented works were 51.38% of clinical specialties and 48.6% of surgical ones, without significant differences. Conclusions: It is necessary to establish a specific regulation of our CEI that adapts to the institutional needs to improve the work of the same, creating own documents based on resolutions and standards of ethics recognized nationally and internationally.