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The recent headlines and controversy over the resignation of a South Korean investigator who admitted to ethical lapses and fraudulent data have raised concerns among IRBs and others in the research industry.
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As the story developed in headlines from around the world it grew from questions about ethical lapses on the part of a South Korean stem cell researcher to his admission of fake data.
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The Ethical Force Program, a collaborative effort of the American Medical Association (AMA) to develop health care systemwide performance measures for ethics, will be field-testing a tool kit on patient-centered communication with diverse populations from March to December 2006 with eight volunteer hospitals and eight physician groups.
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Formal ethics training and education for community representatives who serve on IRBs or otherwise provide an ethical perspective regarding human subjects research is one area of research training that has been overlooked by many institutions.
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An IRB data management software system currently being rolled out at institutions across the country gives IRBs the ability to minutely tailor their own systems and to suggest their own additions.
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Much of social-behavioral research is, at its heart, the study of social relationships between ourselves and our family, our friends, our coworkers, and others in our lives.
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One of the bigger headaches for IRBs is having to sift through hundreds or thousands of unanticipated problems submissions when most of these should never have been reported.
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It can be a challenge to design a training program in human subjects protection that can meet all the needs of varied researchers from biomedical to social-behavioral disciplines, from introductory courses to advanced topics for experienced researchers.
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Intermountain Health Care Urban South Region of Provo, UT, revamped its IRB process with a goal of reducing its lengthy response time and improving quality in IRB submissions.
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Research in family medicine is a diverse field, encompassing everything from practice-based research to educational studies to research involving communities such as American Indian reservations.