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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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Recently Catholic hospitals have received a large amount of media coverage in the news and on the Internet stemming from certain decisions concerning healthcare and ethics.
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The commercial funding of continuing medical education (CME) and the potential for bias is of great concern for a significant number of healthcare practitioners and researchers, many of whom admit to being unwilling to pay higher fees to eliminate or offset commercial funding, according to a report in the Archives of Internal Medicine, (Arch Intern Med 2011;171:840-846).
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Ethical questions and concerns are being raised in cities and towns all over the United States as a number of prison inmates seem to be receiving better and/or reduced rate healthcare for otherwise costly medical procedures.
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The first-in-human clinical trials raise difficult ethical issues for researchers and review boards because of the uncertainty that accompanies them.
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While the possibility of using genetic information for evil, rather than good, sounds like something out of a science fiction movie, the likelihood of that happening is ever-present.
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Suppose you're a hospital case manager under pressure to move patients to another level of care and free up beds for patients boarding in the emergency department. What do you do if you think a patient really needs to stay in acute care?
