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Current federal research regulations in the United States limit efforts to study emerging infectious diseases, and an alternative model is needed to allow a rapid response to immediate threats to public safety, a top U.S. researcher claims.
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In an ideal world, researchers working with mentally ill subjects would be able to present information about their studies in such clear, comprehensive, and organized ways that IRBs could be assured that participants know exactly what to expect.
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In the summer of 1971, Philip Zimbardo, PhD, was lead investigator on The Stanford Prison Experiment, a study designed to measure the psychological effects that imprisonment and authority would have on participants.
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Schulman Associates Institutional Review Board Inc., the University of Cincinnati, and the University of Kentucky will host a one-day conference, IRBs: The Times They Are A Changing, Sept. 19, 2003, at the Northern Kentucky Convention Center in Covington.
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Four years ago, when the IRB at McGuire Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center in Richmond, VA, needed software to support the IRBs work, there appeared to be very little commercial software available. So the IRB decided to create its own software.
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Thanks to the rise in private equity ownership, the number of independent IRBs may be shrinking, but the number of services they offer is greatly expanding.
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As the use of central IRBs grows nationally, these models are increasing consistency in IRB review, but they also are causing some confusion for institutional IRBs.
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While consolidating the industry may not have been the goal of independent IRBs, the number of small and family owned IRBs continues to shrink.
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When research institutions and their IRBs work with centralized IRBs, questions arise about which board handles which responsibilities.
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RB, FDA, IBC, RAC, DSMB just a few of the alphabet soup organizations and regulatory body steps a researcher must go through to get a protocol written, reviewed, and approved. This can lead researchers to burnout dubbed by some at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as regulatory fatigue syndrome.