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While considering the "community" in community-engaged research may add new issues for IRBs to consider, they're not in this job alone.
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Preparation is key to improving a human subjects protection program, and this could include attending to details, such as creating standard operating procedures (SOPs) for making new SOPs, one IRB director has found.
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IRBs should move toward risk management rather than risk aversion, and one way to do this is by obtaining information that provides deeper institutional memory of review outcomes in studies, one expert says.
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For many IRBs, the hybrid electronic/paper systems they've used for a half decade or longer are ready to be replaced. Research and medical institutions are moving toward full electronic communication systems, and IRBs will need to make the leap too.
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To learn the difference collecting and analyzing metrics can make for an IRB, it may be helpful to be a proverbial fly on the wall at the offices of the Vanderbilt University Human Research Protection Program (HRPP).
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As institutions involved in the Clinical and Translational Science Awards program examine how to best incorporate the CTSA's "community engagement" requirement, one CTSA recipient took a hard look at its community involvement practices.
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Using information compiled from its clients, the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs (AAHRPP) is providing an intriguing snapshot of IRB operations.
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Young black men are disproportionately more likely than other groups to be victims of violent crime. But when researchers set out to study this group, they encounter difficulty in recruiting and retaining subjects.
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When Vanderbilt University Medical Center set about creating its BioVU biobank, it went in a different direction than most institutions.
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Based on a survey of research participants, the office of research compliance and quality improvement at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, CA, has come up with these four key areas to demonstrate informed consent.