IRB Advisor – May 1, 2007
May 1, 2007
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IRBs can learn from the experiences of early SCROs
As funding barriers are slowly being chipped away in California and some other parts of the country, increasing numbers of institutions are forming stem cell research oversight committees (SCROs), or embryonic stem cell research oversight committees (ESCRO), which often have some overlapping responsibilities with IRBs. -
Learn start-up differences of SCRO committees and IRB
As stem cell research increases in California and elsewhere, IRBs and institutions are investing time and resources in establishing new oversight committees and writing new policies and procedures. -
Best Practice Report: Create how-to booklet to be used when IRB administrator is gone
Small IRB offices often do not have cross-trained or back-up staff in the event the IRB administrator is unexpectedly absent. So what happens when the people filling in cannot find the right forms or records or schedules? -
Rule creates headaches for historical medical archives
The archives of medical colleges and hospitals can be a rich source of information for historians interested in how health care has been delivered throughout our nation's history. Old case files, collections of physicians' personal papers, even old photographs were donated to archives so that others could learn from them decades later. -
How should IRBs approach privacy in medical archives?
In the absence of changes to HIPAA that would clarify the use of the privacy rule in historical medical archives, institutions, archivists and IRBs are left to sort through the complicated issues themselves. -
Incentives for surveys — Can they be coercive?
When researchers are attempting to persuade subjects to answer questions about themselves, whether on the phone or by filling out a form, sometimes the altruism of participating in research isn't enough.