Human Research Protections Office created

Office of the Secretary ADDITIONAL PROTECTIONS PERTAINING TO BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH INVOLVING PRISONERS AS SUBJECTS

360 Degrees of human subjects protections in community-engaged research.

With the introduction of the new National Institutes of Health Roadmap in 2003, there has been a growing emphasis on translational research. Translational research challenges current human subjects protections guidelines that were written in the 1970s and were focused on the protection of the individual participant in a clinical drug trial. Community engagement requires a critical examination o...

Reimagining Human Research Protections for 21st Century Science

BACKGROUND Evolving research practices and new forms of research enabled by technological advances require a redesigned research oversight system that respects and protects human research participants. OBJECTIVE Our objective was to generate creative ideas for redesigning our current human research oversight system. METHODS A total of 11 researchers and institutional review board (IRB) prof...

Biobanking Research and Human Subjects Protections: Perspectives of IRB Leaders.

Reporting ethical protections in physical therapy research.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Efforts to make physical therapy more evidence based have increased demand for human participants, raising concerns for their safety and welfare. This study examined how often research articles in physical therapy journals report basic ethical protections. METHODS We carried out a retrospective audit of research articles in 6 physical therapy journals between 1996 and 2...