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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.
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Patients hospitalized with depression may need extra help understanding the informed consent process for research, due to cognitive impairments that affect their ability to understand information being given to them about a study.
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When a group of researchers set out to study effective ways to screen HMO members for substance abuse problems and to refer them for treatment, they expected that sensitive topic would require strict confidentiality measures.
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IRBs often do a good, or at least adequate, job of maintaining required documentation for studies they review, but there are several key documentation areas in which many IRBs need to improve, according to experts.
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The Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) has posted its updated and finalized guidance on the IRB continuing review process.
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When and how to release biomarker results is complicated issue for researchers, IRBs