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An advisory board to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has recommended that a proposal to hold pediatric trials of the anthrax vaccine be reviewed by an ethics board before proceeding.
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When a study is terminated because of low enrollment, it wastes the institutional resources that allowed it to be started including those of the IRB that approved it.
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Conflicts of interest (COI) have been an important priority for IRBs and research institutions for decades.
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When a human research protection office seeking accreditation finally has the site visit, the hard work that went into the process is not over. Now it's time to prepare the best possible response to the draft site visit report.
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Serving on an IRB is a very important role that requires commitment and training. Yet, many research institutions that have very good training and evaluation programs for their staffs lack any sort of ongoing oversight of their IRB members.
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently published its final rule on research conflicts of interest, titled, "Responsibility of Applicants for Protecting Objectivity in Research for which Public Health Service Funding is Sought and Responsible Prospective Contractors," in the Federal Register, Vol. 76, No. 165, Aug. 25, 2011.
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One of the thorniest issues in tribal research is the question of who controls the use of the data taken from tribal members or tribal lands. Is it the researcher, who collected the data, or the tribe that gave permission for its collection and use?
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Risk managers should have an active role in purchasing and managing insurance, says R. Stephen Trosty, JD, MHA, CPHRM, president of Risk Management Consulting in Haslett, MI, and a former insurance company executive.
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Fall prevention efforts usually target those thought most likely to fall, but does that leave the other patients at risk if no one is paying attention to their potential for falling? A special focus on high risk patients doesn't have to shortchange others, says Pamela E. Toto, PhD, OTR/L, BCG, FAOTA, an occupational therapist at the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania.
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Who wouldn't want to replicate a falls prevention program that cuts falls 46%? If you want the same results, here are some tips from Christine Waszynski, APRN, a geriatric nurse practitioner and clinical nurse specialist in the geriatrics program who works with the Fall Prevention-Safety Monitor Volunteer Program at Hartford (CT) Hospital:
