Nowadays, the submission of a research project to an ethical committee and its approval is mandatory. However, researchers often overlook this obligation, because they are too engaged in the design and the process of construction of the study, because of the common tight deadlines, and many times because some devaluation of the role of the committee. Based on our experience of 10 years working in an ethical committee, we propose a way to get close researchers and evaluators, respecting their own aims but bringing them together as partners in the investigation process, protecting patients' values, at the same time that makes it possible to implement strategies to answer to the research question and to create useful knowledge. Our aim is to smoothen the way researchers look to the ethical committee and, at the same time, to make them understand what really is at stake. Ethics should be a commitment for all and not an obligation.

O pedido de análise sumária de urina é um acto rotineiro, realizado diária e repetidamente. O seu uso visa o rastreio de bacteriúria assintomática, hematúria e/ou proteinúria e inclui o exame físico, químico e microscópico da urina. São vários os parâmetros analisados, como a coloração, a densidade, o pH, a hematúria, proteinúria, leucocitúria e glicosúria, entre outros. As diferentes alterações no exame poderão ser atribuídas ao uso de fármacos e a inúmeras patologias, entre as quais a diabetes mellitus, a tuberculose, a doença renal (glo

INTRODUÇÃO A diabetes mellitus (DM) é uma doença que acarreta custos humanos, sociais e económicos elevados. Estimativas recentes da International Diabetes Federation indicam que esta doença afeta aproximadamente 382 milhões de pessoas, cerca de 8,3% da população mundial. 1 Calcu

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