Table 2.

Assessment studies, structured according to Donabedian’s model.

	Goals	References
Evaluation of Structure	Evaluation of committee composition and dynamics, recruitment of members, workload, participation level and member turnover	[9,10,11,12,13]
	Evaluation of members’ opinion on structure, organization function and performance
Evaluation of Process	Attitude of committee members towards ethics review	[13,14,15,16]
	Decision making process (individual and group)	[17,18,19]
	Policy implementation and variation in time for review	[19,20,21]
	Examination of variation among AECs in evaluation of hypothetical or real cases	[22,23,24]
Evaluation of Outcome	Compliance of investigators	[25]
	Approval rate	[21,26,27]