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A recent study has found that researchers acknowledge engaging in "normal misbehaviors" in their everyday research life, including abusing post-doctorate students, taking credit when it's not due, culling data based on experience, and shabby documentation.
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IRBs and research organizations continue to iron out privacy policies and details 10 years after a law was passed to require health care organizations to adhere to federal privacy rules under the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996.
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As IRBs work to ensure that women are fairly represented in clinical research, results from a new survey provide a disquieting message: More older women are uninterested in research and don't believe in participating.
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In their zeal to protect research participants from undue risk, are IRBs actually making them more vulnerable, by causing frustrated researchers to circumvent the IRB system?
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A year after its public meeting on the Support study, the Office of Human Research Protections (OHRP) issued a draft guidance to clarify its thinking on the disclosure of reasonably foreseeable risks in standard of care research.
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For years now, IRB managers have been developing and using tools, including checklists and templates. The goal is to improve IRB review consistency and to expedite the approval turnaround process. While checklists and tools are useful, they can also be a problem.
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Human research protection programs (HRPPs) are poised for the next level of evolution as todays controversies push research ethics in new directions.
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IRB board member self-evaluations are crucial for determining how members view their IRB service and measuring the performance of the HRPP itself. But IRB administrators who are looking for self-evaluation tools may have a hard time deciding where to start, or which issues should be the focus.
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Enid Virago, PhD, CIP, CCRP, and Joanna Lyons, RN, DEd, developed the Evaluation of Research Protections Programs and Committee Membership Self-Evaluation to measure IRB member service satisfaction and performance of the HRPP.
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summer when debates raged over Facebooks social media study. Public rebukes of studies involving big data and social media are fairly rare, but these studies can raise all kinds of ethical challenges.