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Research Governance and Ethics

Waiver of consent projects

  • The Health Records Act (2001) required the details of all research projects operating with a waiver of consent to be publicly available. To comply with this legislative requirement, the following table contains a list of projects for which The Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne HREC approved a waiver of consent in the last (complete financial) year:


    HREC Number

    Study Title                                                               

    35130                 Presentation, management and outcome of paediatric subcutaneous panniculitis-like T-cell lymphoma: a multicentric retrospective study         
    36384 Long term outcomes following early infection and inflammation in a birth cohort with cystic fibrosis
    37199 Second Malignancies in Survivors of Paediatric Hodgkin’s Disease: Quantifying risks in the Victorian Population
    37265 Outcomes of children with primary dilated cardiomyopathy seen in a single, state-wide heart failure service over a 30-year period. 
    38053 The extent to which antenatal testing can be used to predict cerebral palsy.