IRB Advisor – March 1, 2006
March 1, 2006
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Historians, OHRP and IRBs looking for common ground on oral history projects
Add one more discipline to the list of those that have issues with IRB review: Oral historians, who maintain that they should not be required to seek review for their interviews with participants. -
De-identification software for researchers and IRBs
As IRBs deal with the privacy provisions of HIPAA, they often must decide whether researchers are allowed to waive individual authorization for use of patients data. -
NIH’s ethical framework wins award for excellence
Guidelines and regulations related to research ethics often are conflicting and difficult to follow, so IRBs are left with a multitude of ways to interpret human subjects research issues that arise during the protocol review process. -
NIH’s 7 principles relating to clinical research ethics
The NIH has created a framework and benchmarks program for evaluating research ethics. Christine Grady, PhD, RN, head of the section on human subjects research in the department of clinical bioethics at NIH, provides these insights into the seven principles outlined in the framework: -
Think far beyond ethical requirements set in regs
One of the drawbacks for research conducted in this age of checklists and strong regulatory oversight is that IRBs and research institutions do what theyre required to do and sometimes neglect to address the bigger picture, an ethics expert says.