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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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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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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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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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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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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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When do you withhold or discontinue life-prolonging treatment in cases deemed medically futile? As baby boomers age, the critical issues surrounding these cases will require advance planning and establishment of guidelines.
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