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The Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) in Washington, DC, is indicating to research institutions that the agency favors the use of centralized IRBs for multisite studies.
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The Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) in Washington, DC, recently published letters that explain the agency's revised stand on the use of central or external IRBs.
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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 Vanderbilt University Medical Center set about creating its BioVU biobank, it went in a different direction than most institutions.
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Young black men are disproportionately more likely than other groups to be victims of violent crime. But when researchers set out to study this group, they encounter difficulty in recruiting and retaining subjects.
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As concerns grow over the expense and slow progress of classic randomized clinical trials (RCTs), an intriguing alternative is gaining steam adaptive design, in which trials change at various decision points in response to accumulated data.
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Internet research has been an issue for IRBs since its roots in the 1990s, and the challenges ethics boards face in reviewing such studies are in pioneer territory.
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Internet technology and its impact on society have evolved so quickly in recent years that researchers and IRBs lag far behind in their efforts to understand and use this new forum.
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For researchers and IRBs there is an ethical paradox in behavioral studies involving populations that are hard to engage.
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As Americans become increasingly accustomed to learning more about their own health, it's becoming more common for research participants to expect to learn about their personal results during a study.
