IRB Advisor articles from January 2006

IRB Advisor archives from January 2006

Do you have measures in place to protect student participants?
January 1, 2006... Do you have measures in place to protect student participants? IRBs should monitor psych student subject pools It's a staple of undergraduate psychology studies — the research requirement, in which students agree to sign up for...

Flexible continuing ed meets varied needs.
January 1, 2006... Flexible continuing ed meets varied needs Something for everyone's skill level and schedule It can be a challenge to design a training program in human subjects protection that can meet all the needs of varied researchers — from...

Family medicine group suggests guidelines.
January 1, 2006... Family medicine group suggests guidelines Recommendations cover three areas Research in family medicine is a diverse field, encompassing everything from practice-based research to educational studies to research involving communities...

Improve SAE reporting with electronic submission.
January 1, 2006... Improve SAE reporting with electronic submission Reduce unnecessary reports 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...

IRB streamlines process to improve response time.
January 1, 2006... IRB streamlines process to improve response time Reviews went from 24 days to 17 days Intermountain Health Care Urban South Region of Provo, UT, revamped its IRB process with a goal of reducing its lengthy response time and improving...

News Briefs.
January 1, 2006... Nuclear terror threats spur treatment studies Amid growing concern that terrorists may strike with a nuclear weapon instead of a biological one, the government is fast-tracking programs to develop medical countermeasures against...

CE/CME objectives/questions.
January 1, 2006... CE/CME objectives The CE/CME objectives for IRB Advisor are to help physicians and nurses be able to: *establish clinical trial programs using accepted ethical principles for human subject protection; *apply the mandated...