IRB Advisor – September 1, 2010
September 1, 2010
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Data driven: Accreditation group releases metrics for IRB performance
Using information compiled from its clients, the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs (AAHRPP) is providing an intriguing snapshot of IRB operations. -
Using metrics to track, improve performance
To learn the difference collecting and analyzing metrics can make for an IRB, it may be helpful to be a proverbial fly on the wall at the offices of the Vanderbilt University Human Research Protection Program (HRPP). -
Avoiding common pitfalls with new electronic system
For many IRBs, the hybrid electronic/paper systems they've used for a half decade or longer are ready to be replaced. Research and medical institutions are moving toward full electronic communication systems, and IRBs will need to make the leap too. -
Risk: Moving from aversion to management
IRBs should move toward risk management rather than risk aversion, and one way to do this is by obtaining information that provides deeper institutional memory of review outcomes in studies, one expert says. -
Random audits put the prepare in preparation
Preparation is key to improving a human subjects protection program, and this could include attending to details, such as creating standard operating procedures (SOPs) for making new SOPs, one IRB director has found. -
NIH studies lacking in community engagement
As institutions involved in the Clinical and Translational Science Awards program examine how to best incorporate the CTSA's "community engagement" requirement, one CTSA recipient took a hard look at its community involvement practices. -
Working as team boots community engagement
While considering the "community" in community-engaged research may add new issues for IRBs to consider, they're not in this job alone.