Intermountain Health Care Urban South Region of Provo, UT, revamped its IRB process with a goal of reducing its lengthy response time and to improve quality in IRB submissions.
Public health researchers studying sensitive issues suicide, domestic violence, drug use sometimes find themselves dealing with more than just the survey questions at hand.
Students who did practice sessions with a virtual reality "human subject" learned better informed consent skills than did those who only studied consent rules from written material, according to a recent study.
The two-part process of electronic submission of unanticipated problems at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO, requires investigators and clinical trial staff to enter information about the events after passing the chief screening criteria, and then it requires a reviewer to look at what has been submitted.
