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Do you think that better health is enough of a reward for employees who choose to take a health risk assessment? That may not be sufficient, if you want participation rates to brag about.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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New reports about proton pump inhibitors and the effects of gastric suppression, pioglitazone vs vitamin E for non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, metformin and vitamin B12 deficiency, and FDA Actions.