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Research institutions that make it a goal to improve ethical conduct among staff, researchers, and students engaged in research should focus on providing better ethics education, developing sound policies & procedures, and leading by example, an expert says.
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Research institutions could improve recruitment data collection and efficiency, as well as make their IRBs happy, if they develop a standardized recruitment tool for use with new studies, an expert says.
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All it takes is for an IRB member or investigator to experience those intrusive, evening phone calls about a new study enrolling people with their health condition to convince them that there must be a better way to approach potential research participants.
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An overwhelming majority of research subjects with schizophrenia monitored over the course of a long-term medication study retained the capacity to give consent for research.
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It's a well-accepted position in human subjects protection circles that in order to improve IRBs and their relationships with investigators, it's important to actually study IRBs how they work, how long it takes to do things, the knowledge and attitudes that members carry into discussions of various types of research.
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In response to concerns raised about IRB review of genetic research, a group of investigators, ethicists and other stakeholders has surveyed genetic researchers and IRB professionals to discern what issues are complicating review.
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When a researcher breaches a cultural divide to study a group of people, he or she needs more than a translator to convert documents from one language to another.
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How do you bridge the gap between an IRB that believes all of the work you do is subject to oversight and a faculty that thinks none of it is?
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Five years ago, a panel of researchers and others involved in social and behavioral sciences convened to explore concerns about the scope and effectiveness of IRB review.
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When consultant Jeffrey Cooper talks to IRBs about using the flexibility of federal regulations to change their procedures, he can see that the message doesn't always get through.