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A major obstacle to implementing process or quality improvement measures is finding out what the people impacted by the change think.
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Patients hospitalized with depression may need extra help understanding the informed consent process for research, due to cognitive impairments that affect their ability to understand information being given to them about a study.
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When a group of researchers set out to study effective ways to screen HMO members for substance abuse problems and to refer them for treatment, they expected that sensitive topic would require strict confidentiality measures.
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IRBs often do a good, or at least adequate, job of maintaining required documentation for studies they review, but there are several key documentation areas in which many IRBs need to improve, according to experts.
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The Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) has posted its updated and finalized guidance on the IRB continuing review process.
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When and how to release biomarker results is complicated issue for researchers, IRBs
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IRBs can learn a great deal from each other. One research institution's hard-earned lesson and resolution can be another organization's best practices.
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IRBs should work to create balanced IRB discussions and ensure cooperation between members of diverse backgrounds.
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As institutions continue to weather the economic downturn, the toll on IRB offices is showing. The trends of previous years fewer raises, more job cuts, increasing workloads continued in 2010, according to responses to IRB Advisor's annual Salary Survey.
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Recruiting patients for Phase I oncology studies which are unlikely to provide therapeutic benefit to participants and which carry the risk of significant side effects raises unique issues in informed consent.