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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.
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Fledgling student investigators at universities can find human subjects protection regulations complicated and overwhelming and the IRB bureaucracy intimidating and scary.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Making patient bills more user-friendly -- not to mention ensuring that they are actually accurate -- continues to be a focus in the health care industry.
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The traumatic events of Sept. 11, 2001, now seared into the national consciousness, were particularly up close and personal for Michael Friedberg, FACHE, CHAM, who was on his way to work at Jersey City Medical Center, across the river from the World Trade Center, when the hijacked planes hit the towers.
