IRB Advisor – April 1, 2017
April 1, 2017
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A Fresh Method to Adverse Event Tracking in Behavioral Studies
Researchers in Texas studied a state-of-the-art adverse event monitoring program for behavioral health clinical trials.
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No ROMP in the Park: The Complex Intersection Between QI and Clinical Research
Somewhere between typical human research and clinical practice, there is gray area assigned the acronym ROMP — “research on medical practices” — that includes activities such as continuous quality improvement, comparative effectiveness research, and electronic medical record review, the authors of a new study explain.
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Ethical Issues of Research Recruiting on Social Media
Not surprisingly, the exploding social media landscape is fraught with ethical intrigue for researchers who seek to recruit human research subjects for clinical trials.
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Social Media Research Recruitment Checklist
The following are key points summarized from a recently published checklist for IRB evaluation of social medial recruitment proposals from investigators.
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IRB Gets New Researchers’ Attention With Visually Clever Infographics
As the IRB at Montclair State University in Montclair, NJ, worked on creating a culture of compliance, IRB leaders learned that new researchers, including students, pay more attention to policies and regulations when they’re spelled out in more pictures than words.
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Here Is a Nutshell Look at Ways to Improve Compliance
The Montclair State University IRB in Montclair, NJ, has a variety of strategies to improve research protection compliance, including providing educational materials with eye-catching infographics.
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A Consent Consult Helps New Researchers With Informed Consent
IRBs can teach researchers how to create informed consent forms, but perhaps what they most need are lessons in how to handle the consent process.
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Student Receives IRB Approval to Collect and Display Comments From Sexual Assault Victims
A Notre Dame student received approval for her design project including the statements of sexual assault victims.