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Spring clean IRB reviews by focusing on review criteria
As IRB workloads shift to summer schedules, it’s a good time to assess whether boards are staying on mission focus, an IRB chair suggests.
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Here are a few risk-benefit examples
As IRBs debate and consider how to assess risks and benefits in research, here are a couple of examples of cases where IRBs made controversial and sometimes opposing decisions.
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Dig deep when analyzing risks and benefits
When IRBs and investigators deal with risks, they should identify reasonably foreseeable risks and have reasonable precautions to prevent harm.
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Top IRB findings during accreditation site visits
IRBs and human subjects research protection programs continue to find concerns during site visits in the accreditation process.
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AAHRPP findings reveal issues IRBs need to address
Each year, human subjects protection programs worldwide prepare for accreditation, making changes and improving processes. Which problems crop up most frequently?
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Here’s a quick look at the national IRB reliance agreement
A national IRB model was developed to make the review process more efficient and to offer research organizations an alternative to the central IRB model.
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Experts: NIRB and IRBshare are alternatives to central IRBs
As some IRBs and research institutions seek more efficient ways to achieve quality human research protection during multisite trials, new models have emerged. One of the newest is the National IRB Reliance Initiative.
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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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Smartphone apps are a new frontier for minimal risk studies
Now, entire research studies are being run through a handful of apps, released in mid-March, through the iTunes App Store. These apps consent study participants, determine eligibility of participants, and run study tasks — all without the need for participants to travel to study sites.
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IRBs win awards for best practices, innovation
The Health Improvement Institute’s (HII’s) Awards for Excellence in Human Research Protection recently honored two IRBs that streamlined and implemented new systems for efficiency and information-sharing to improve approval turnaround times and quality of human subjects protection in the areas of best practices and innovation.