IRB Advisor – January 1, 2008
January 1, 2008
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Does your IRB have a plan for handling incidental findings?
How IRBs should handle incidental findings is becoming such a notable issue among IRB professionals that there was a recent conference devoted to the topic. -
Student mentor serves on IRB, helps other students navigate system
Fledgling student investigators at universities can find human subjects protection regulations complicated and overwhelming and the IRB bureaucracy intimidating and scary. -
Psychological association seeks to ease problems between IRBs, researchers
A special task force of the American Psychological Association studying the tensions between IRBs and psychology researchers has released a list of recommendations on how to address those tensions. -
Empowering researchers, educating IRB members
The recommendations of the American Psychological Association's Task Force on IRBs and Psychological Science focus on giving IRBs and psychological researchers a better understanding of each other's methods and motivations, as well as generating more useful data about how the two groups interact. -
When studies involve terrorism victims, think of three major issues
Studies involving terrorism or disaster victims should receive extra attention and concern from the IRB, but not always for the reasons IRB members suspect, an expert says.