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When Sarah Fowler-Dixon, PhD, an education specialist in Washington University's Human Research Protection Office, began a project to develop the university's Internet research guideline for the university, she gathered a task force of IRB members, investigators involved in Internet research, and a technical advisor to help work through the complicated security issues involved.
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It might take an individual IRB member from six months to a year to become fully acclimated to participating on an ethics board. So research institutions should do what they can to improve both new IRB member orientation and continuing education and training.
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IRBs and research institutions occasionally should revisit their conflict of interest policies and update them to make certain they effectively protect human subjects, as well as pass the "smell" test.
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Over the past decade, the Internet has become an invaluable tool for researchers, linking colleagues across nations or even continents and enabling huge amounts of data to be transmitted quickly and securely. It even makes applying to IRBs faster and (well, relatively) painless.
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One major academic research institution has developed a process for prospectively checking protocols for fiscal responsibility and compliance.
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When a research institution is its own sponsor of investigational new drugs (INDs), there often aren't solid standard operating procedures (SOPs) for investigators.
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It's a maxim in business marketing that it costs four to six times as much to find new customers as it does to keep existing ones.
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Recruiting clinical trial participants is rarely easy, but finding subjects in rural areas where transportation and trust are big obstacles can be particularly challenging.
