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In this context of improvement, evaluation is necessary and CIBERSAM stresses the evaluation of its structure, processes, and scientific production:
• Structure: the qualification, technological capacity, infrastructure, economic-administrative organization, management of human and material resources are taken into account .
• Processes: the accomplishment of CIBER’s mission, the relevance of its activity on a national and international level and the coherence in planning, disclosing and disseminating its results stand out .
• Scientific production: production is assessed with respect to the available funds, the number of publications, the projects, the patents and the development over time .
CIBERSAM has a code of Good Research Practices adopted by all its researchers . Complying with a code of Good Scientific Practice means maintaining ethical principles and legal requirements in accordance with international ethical standards in research stated in the Declaration of Helsinki (obtaining informed consent, comprehensive assessment of the risk/benefit ratio of the study and impartiality in selecting study participants and performing follow-up), as well as the CIBERSAM Good Scientific Conduct Committee (GSCC) . These are the essential elements in any research work that seeks to expand scientific knowledge within a framework of credibility and respect from society .
Furthermore, CIBERSAM has added to its Quality Management System an operating protocol based on national and international ethical standards for handling and transferring biological samples between CIBERSAM laboratories (from test animals or experiments with cells and from patients or controls) . This protocol assures the quality and stability of the samples under its control and of the data relating to said samples at all times .
The Mental Health CIBER has a quality control system for research and management activities . The Steering Committee, the Scientific Committee as well as the area, line and/or project coordinators and managers make sure that the objectives are complied with and that the scientific methods have the appropriate quality attributes .
In 2014, actions for evaluating and monitoring objectives, indicators and processes defined in the Strategic Plan based on the ISO standard were conducted:
• Defining and monitoring areas of improvement and prevention detected in areas of management and research activity .
• Detecting and monitoring areas of improvement resulting from analyzing satisfaction surveys . • Analysing results of the external pharmaceutical laboratory satisfaction survey .
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