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Recent measles outbreaks show dangers of bad research
IRBs need to be reminded how even the smallest of studies based on bad science or being performed by an unethical researcher can have long-lasting dangers and impact on society, a regulatory coordinator says.
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A big data cardiovascular study plans to learn a lot
A big data cardiovascular study out of the University of California, San Francisco is enrolling volunteers from around the world in a quest to learn more about heart disease.
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Online cardiovascular study shows technological evolution of research
A new research study involving social media highlights how challenging it is for IRBs when technology continually speeds up the evolution of human research protection.
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Informed consent issues at the front lines of clinical trials
IRBs spend considerable time poring over informed consent documents and learning all they can about a study’s informed consent process. But how do these IRB discussions and changes translate into a living informed consent process after the study is approved?
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Johns Hopkins and Rockefeller Foundation respond to lawsuits
Both Johns Hopkins University and the Rockefeller Foundation recently issued statements saying that while they condemn the Guatemalan studies that harmed hundreds of people, their institutions were not involved or responsible for those studies.
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Presidential Commission found gross violations in Guatemalan studies
After nine months and reviewing 125,000 pages of records, the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues found that the Guatemalan studies of sexually transmitted diseases were “ethically impossible.”
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Billion-dollar Lawsuit Puts the Past into the Present
From an IRB and research ethics perspective, when are historical wrongdoings truly in the past?
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Patient ID ‘paramount’ to forming interoperable LHS
Patient identification has been called “paramount” to the formation of an interoperable Learning Health System (LHS). So says the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems (AMDIS).
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Paper, storage costs plummet with e-signatures: 60,000 pages no longer printed
More than 60,000 pieces of paper each month no longer need to be printed, copied, and stored in offsite record storage locations, due to electronic signatures being implemented in registration areas at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago.
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Email surveys get quick response from members of patient access staff
When managers at OSF Healthcare System wanted the staff's' opinion, they got answers via an email survey.