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Hospitals and their emergency departments (EDs) miss repeated opportunities to identify people who are infected with HIV but do not know their status, according to new research by Michael Mugavero, MD, associate professor in the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Medicine.
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The new edition of a widely-used human subjects protection curriculum has an increased emphasis on community engagement and the importance of on-going informed consent, says one of its developers.
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Successful IRB members are developed, not born, according to an expert in research ethics.
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Many IRB offices have transitioned to completely electronic documentation and processes in recent years. This trend offers flexibility to IRB staffing and office space.
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As Washington University in St. Louis, MO, expanded its interest in community-engaged research (CEnR), officials realized that both the researchers and their community partners needed to better understand human subjects protection requirements.
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A presidential commission has begun carrying out President Barack Obama's charge to review human subjects protections in U.S.-sponsored research both here and abroad, in the wake of revelations about unethical research carried out in Guatemala in the 1940s.
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IRBs continue to work toward streamlining the handling of multisite studies through alternative models of review. But they can sometimes struggle with a process that requires them to accept the review of another board in place of their own.
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A major obstacle to implementing process or quality improvement measures is finding out what the people impacted by the change think.