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New Common Rule Suggests Changes for Informed Consent Documents
IRBs often spend too much time wordsmithing informed consent forms and not enough time on the big issue of comprehension, one IRB director says.
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Research Offers Clues on How to Improve Informed Consent
Deciding to make informed consent as comprehensible as possible is the easy part. What is not easy is determining how to accomplish this goal.
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Beware of Good and Bad News About the New Common Rule
The revised Common Rule changes will go into effect on Jan. 21, 2019, but it is quite likely IRBs will be adjusting their processes without all of the federal guidance they need.
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Ethics of Patient Access to Experimental Treatments
Partner universities will build a national framework for more efficient, consistent, and widespread use of the program and help more hospitals offer experimental options to their patients.
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Research Ethics Groups Can Complement IRB Oversight
The increasing complexity of human subjects research has driven the development of research ethics consultation services, which can complement the oversight role of IRBs.
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Simplify Numbers to Help Subjects Better Understand Informed Consent
Poorly conducted informed consent often comes down to how researchers present the numbers.
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Tips for Informed Consent on GPS Data
If location data will not be erased in a study, how should IRBs explain the risks in informed consent communications?
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Researchers Urge IRBs to Preserve Location Data
Faced with the sudden emergence of this latest aspect of the tech revolution, many in bioethics initially err on the side of location data eradication.
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University’s Central IRB Was Built From the Ground Up
With 37 relying sites and nine active studies, all within 1.5 years since inception, the University of Miami’s new central IRB was a success.
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Should Subjects Who Drop Out of Studies Receive Compensation?
On the issue of payment to research subjects, what should be done if people drop out of the study?