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Case study: IRB deals with social network analysis issues
The IRB at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign had a number of issues to consider when researchers submitted a study involving a social network analysis on sensitive issues. In this case, the sensitive issue was sexual assault on a college campus.
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IRB’s HRPP training class covers multiple areas
A research institution’s centralized research training program began as a way to help new investigators and research teams learn more about the IRB process and human research protection. But the program, called Navigating Clinical Research, has expanded into a comprehensive training course that uses a variety of adult learning strategies.
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Clinical research training course provides interactive instruction
Human research protection program (HRPP) training at the institutional level often lacks uniformity and evidence-based strategies, some experts say. Some organizations and research programs require new investigators and IRB staff to have extensive online coursework or on-campus classes, and others provide only general guidelines and requirements.
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OHRP and FDA address electronic informed consent
Federal regulatory agencies acknowledged in recent draft guidance that research informed consent is moving in directions not quite imagined several decades ago. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) published draft guidance for industry, clinical investigators, and IRBs in the “Use of an Electronic Informed Consent in Clinical Investigations” in the March 9, 2015, Federal Register.
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Smartphone apps are a new frontier for minimal risk studies
Now, entire research studies are being run through a handful of apps, released in mid-March, through the iTunes App Store. These apps consent study participants, determine eligibility of participants, and run study tasks — all without the need for participants to travel to study sites.
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MMR and autism: Myth and misinformation
An anti-vaccine movement that has been amplified by the Internet and endorsed by vocal celebrities has created a persistent public fear that the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine causes autism in children.
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As measles cases head for record case count, employee health must ensure HCW immunity
Amid what could well be another annual record for measles in the post-vaccination era by the end of 2015, employee health professionals must ensure that staff are immunized to avoid the chaos that can ensue when a single undiagnosed case enters a hospital.
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Ebola fear and stigma of health care workers echoes early days of AIDS in the 1980s
After the index case of Ebola in the U.S. died and two nurses who treated him in a Dallas hospital became infected, there was an outbreak of irrationality that spread as rapidly as any epidemic.
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Bioethics panel: Ebola quarantines of asymptomatic health workers ‘morally wrong’
The misguided attempts to quarantine asymptomatic health care workers returning from fighting Ebola in West Africa last year were unethical and counterproductive, a federal bioethics group concluded in a recent report
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Ebola training makes all the difference for health care workers in terms of stress control
The nightmarish experience of treating an Ebola patient described by American nurse Nina Pham, RN, is in sharp contrast to the surprisingly controlled stress levels experienced by a well-trained group of health care workers in Germany.