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A Consent Consult Helps New Researchers With Informed Consent
IRBs can teach researchers how to create informed consent forms, but perhaps what they most need are lessons in how to handle the consent process.
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Here Is a Nutshell Look at Ways to Improve Compliance
The Montclair State University IRB in Montclair, NJ, has a variety of strategies to improve research protection compliance, including providing educational materials with eye-catching infographics.
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IRB Gets New Researchers’ Attention With Visually Clever Infographics
As the IRB at Montclair State University in Montclair, NJ, worked on creating a culture of compliance, IRB leaders learned that new researchers, including students, pay more attention to policies and regulations when they’re spelled out in more pictures than words.
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Social Media Research Recruitment Checklist
The following are key points summarized from a recently published checklist for IRB evaluation of social medial recruitment proposals from investigators.
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Ethical Issues of Research Recruiting on Social Media
Not surprisingly, the exploding social media landscape is fraught with ethical intrigue for researchers who seek to recruit human research subjects for clinical trials.
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No ROMP in the Park: The Complex Intersection Between QI and Clinical Research
Somewhere between typical human research and clinical practice, there is gray area assigned the acronym ROMP — “research on medical practices” — that includes activities such as continuous quality improvement, comparative effectiveness research, and electronic medical record review, the authors of a new study explain.
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A Fresh Method to Adverse Event Tracking in Behavioral Studies
Researchers in Texas studied a state-of-the-art adverse event monitoring program for behavioral health clinical trials.
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Study: Palliative Care Meetings Did Not Reduce Anxiety, Depression
Palliative care-led informational and emotional support meetings with families of ICU patients did not reduce anxiety or depression symptoms, and may have increased post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms, found a recent study.
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Growing Focus on Physician Well-being: More Than Half Report Burnout
More than half of U.S. physicians are now experiencing professional burnout, found a recent study.
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Data Reveal Reasons for Under-enrollment of Minorities In Clinical Trials
Barriers to enrolling a diverse population of patients in clinical trials are complex and multilevel, concluded a recent study.