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IRBs at academic research centers often review international infectious diseases research that can raise red flags regarding privacy, confidentiality, and vulnerability.
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Researchers often criticize IRBs and see them as barriers to research.
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Four times a year, staff and board members from IRBs around the St. Louis area get together to talk about the issues that concern them, in an effort to learn from each other and to jointly sponsor educational programs.
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The software demands of smaller IRBs and larger ones can be very different, and its hard to meet everybodys needs with a single program. So Third Sky Inc. doesnt try.
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The problem of how to handle quality improvement (QI) projects resulted in a research project that explored the intersection between research and quality improvement and ethical oversight.
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Mission creep among IRB work occurs when research institutions and IRBs permit fear of missing something to rule their decisions, an expert says.
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The University of Southern Californias Office for the Protection of Research Subjects provides tips on how to identify human research studies in its booklet, Is Your Project Human Subjects Research? A Guide for Investigators.
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The latest round in the ongoing debate between IRBs and social and behavioral researchers about the scope and effectiveness of IRB review has come in the form of a white paper, Improving the System for Protecting Human Subjects: Counteracting IRB Mission Creep, released late last year by the Center for Advanced Study at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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UK clinical trial disaster: Five subjects sent home; NIH launches MedlinePlus Magazine for public; GAO: Improve post-approval drug oversight
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A new journal about research ethics includes articles in June 2006, that discuss how the ethics review process has gone wrong for qualitative research, including ethnography.