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Using information compiled from its clients, the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs (AAHRPP) is providing an intriguing snapshot of IRB operations.
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As institutions involved in the Clinical and Translational Science Awards program examine how to best incorporate the CTSA's "community engagement" requirement, one CTSA recipient took a hard look at its community involvement practices.
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To learn the difference collecting and analyzing metrics can make for an IRB, it may be helpful to be a proverbial fly on the wall at the offices of the Vanderbilt University Human Research Protection Program (HRPP).
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For many IRBs, the hybrid electronic/paper systems they've used for a half decade or longer are ready to be replaced. Research and medical institutions are moving toward full electronic communication systems, and IRBs will need to make the leap too.
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IRBs should move toward risk management rather than risk aversion, and one way to do this is by obtaining information that provides deeper institutional memory of review outcomes in studies, one expert says.
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Preparation is key to improving a human subjects protection program, and this could include attending to details, such as creating standard operating procedures (SOPs) for making new SOPs, one IRB director has found.
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While considering the "community" in community-engaged research may add new issues for IRBs to consider, they're not in this job alone.
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Research institutions increasingly are turning to central IRBs for multisite clinical trials, and this trend probably will accelerate due to recent news that federal regulators are encouraging the change, experts say.
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Based on a survey of research participants, the office of research compliance and quality improvement at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, CA, has come up with these four key areas to demonstrate informed consent.
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When the federal Office of Human Research Protections raised questions about a quality improvement (QI) initiative to reduce catheter infections in Michigan hospitals in 2007, it reignited a debate over the line between QI and human subjects research necessitating IRB review.
