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A small study about improving readability of informed consent examines how investigators and IRBs can make research understandable to people with very limited reading skills.
While the federal Right to Try law enacted last year essentially bypassed IRB oversight of patients seeking investigational drugs, research ethics panels and their institutions can codify a requirement for local oversight into their policies and procedures.
The FDA recently opened a promising path to capture real-world data and evidence to complement traditional clinical trials and open new avenues of research.
Compliance with the 2017 changes to ClinicalTrials.gov registration can be time-consuming, as at least one organization has learned over the past year.
Achieving trust in human research can be challenging in an age of precision medicine that calls for long-term relationships and potential unintended consequences far beyond a simple informed consent document.
Financial Disclosure: Author Melinda Young, Medical Writer Gary Evans, Editor Jill Drachenberg, Editor Jesse Saffron, Editorial Group Manager Terrey L. Hatcher, and Physician Editor Lindsay McNair, MD, MPH, MSBioethics report no consultant, stockholder, speaker’s bureau, research, or other financial relationships with companies having ties to this field of study. Nurse Planner Kay Ball is a consultant for Ethicon USA and Mobile Instrument Service and Repair.
