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In the proposed revision of the Common Rule, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) responds to years of complaints about informed consent documents that they're too long, too complicated, too full of boilerplate and risk management language.
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Research ethicists and others have long described the value of recruiting more minorities in clinical research (CR) trials, but the question is whether or not IRBs have a role to play in advancing this goal.
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In assessing the recent revisions to the Common Rule proposed by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the accrediting agency for human subjects protection programs suggests that HHS may lack the necessary information to move forward with a final rule.
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Most major corporations and business sectors have adopted business quality improvement (QI) measures like Six Sigma, Lean Process, and others. But in human subjects research, this type of QI approach is fairly new, an expert says.
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The way investigators, research institutions, and IRBs handle incidental findings has evolved in recent years, with a consensus now forming around the belief that research sites have an ethical responsibility when it comes to reporting certain incidental findings to research subjects.
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Many research institutions now have quality assurance/improvement projects that include research site audits or quality checks. But how many have thought about performing such a quality check on the IRB's work?
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When human subjects research directors finish sifting through the proposed Common Rule changes, they likely will find some things they can live with and plenty of others they'd like to modify.
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In its proposed revision of the Common Rule, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is considering the most extensive changes to human subjects protection regulations in decades.
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The most recent statistics gathered from the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs' (AAHRPP) client institutions don't look all that different from the baseline metrics released last year.
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Researchers studying whether specially padded underwear protected elderly wearers from hip fractures came up with a one-sided garment design that allowed them to compare the results of a padded hip and an unprotected hip on the same person.