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Health care costs for participants in a health and wellness coaching program were $19 to $22 per member per month less than for a control group in a study by an independent researcher conducted for Medica, a health insurance company with headquarters in Minneapolis.
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If a health system wins a major national quality award, it must be doing something right, but also something different from other organizations, right? Ask one and likely at some point, a spokesperson will says something about focusing on the patient and striving to improve. But not everyone.
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With federal regulators shifting toward policies that would facilitate more central IRBs for multisite research, human subjects research protection offices need to take note and develop guidelines and tools for handling shared IRB responsibilities in multisite trials, an expert says.
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IRBs and investigators sometimes waste time on unnecessary IRB submissions. A simple initial review triage checklist can eliminate this problem, one IRB has discovered.
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The report prepared for the University of Michigan about international research conducted there lays out a series of recommendations that can aid other institutions' investigators and IRBs.
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When the National Institutes of Health (NIH) released its policy regarding data sharing for NIH-supported genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in 2007, officials at the University of Washington in Seattle knew it would have an effect on their operations.
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As IRBs continue to contemplate various models of centralized review for multisite studies, projects have begun to pop up, trying out these models.
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The University of CaliforniaBerkeley's office for the protection of human subjects has developed new guidance for investigators involved in Web-based research. One of the main sections of the guidance involves informed consent issues.
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As Internet use has exploded worldwide, so has Web-based research. Between 2004 and 2009, the number of web-based research studies published in the American Psychological Association's (APA) Journal of Personality and Social Psychology rose by more than 500%.
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As institutions seek to expand their international research portfolios, IRBs face increasing challenges differing regulations in different countries, cultural distinctions that may lead to unexpected risks and the difficulties of oversight at such a distance.