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Small IRBs often have a resource dilemma: How do you help the IRB improve consistency and quality of reviews when staffing is limited?
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The 21st century IRB office is run by professional-level staff more than in previous years. While 30 years ago an IRB could rely on a long-time employee who had experience without credentials, this model is becoming rare.
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Research institutions sometimes struggle with retaining experienced IRB members as the workload can be significant and there are so many competing duties and projects for these scientists, professors, bioethicists, and other professionals.
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The 2011 changes to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Public Health Service (PHS) regulations for reporting investigator conflicts of interest may still be causing confusion for researchers and IRBs.
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Protocol review consistency is a hot topic as IRBs, research organizations, and investigators struggle with balancing quality and efficiency in the review process.
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[Editor's note: ED Management awards the "Gold Star" to ED teams that go above and beyond the expected to dramatically improve performance through unique and creative approaches. To nominate your ED or another one for a Gold Star, contact Joy Daughtery Dickinson, senior managing editor, at
[email protected].]
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A true test of the success of a process improvement initiative is whether the results can be sustained, and the ED at Hudson Valley Hospital Center in Cortlandt Manor, NY, has just celebrated the fifth anniversary of its "no wait" process. Most patients skip the waiting room entirely and go right to registration, and then to triage.
