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When an IRB is confronted with reviewing an unfamiliar commercial collaboration to collect human tissue, it doesn't have to work in a vacuum.
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Commercial tissue repositories looking for sources of human tissue, and hospitals that discard tissue from surgeries daily, could appear to be a match made in heaven.
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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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One of the drawbacks for research conducted in this age of checklists and strong regulatory oversight is that IRBs and research institutions do what they're required to do and sometimes neglect to address the bigger picture, an ethics expert says.
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The two-part process of electronic submission of unanticipated problems at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO, requires investigators and clinical trial staff to enter information about the events after passing the chief screening criteria, and then it requires a reviewer to look at what has been submitted.
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Students who did practice sessions with a virtual reality "human subject" learned better informed consent skills than did those who only studied consent rules from written material, according to a recent study.
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Public health researchers studying sensitive issues suicide, domestic violence, drug use sometimes find themselves dealing with more than just the survey questions at hand.
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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 to improve quality in IRB submissions.
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