Research Status of Case Reports for Medical School Institutional Review Boards

Medical research oversight from the corporate governance perspective: comparing institutional review boards and corporate boards.

The python's embrace: clinical research regulation by institutional review boards.

Subject consent and its waiver are critical topics in contemporary research. Institutional review boards (IRBs), acting under the wary eye of the Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP), typically may waive consent when research involves no more than minimal risk, waiver would not harm the subjects, and the research would be impracticable without the waiver.1 IRBs constrict research when t...

Current status of the institutional review boards in Korea: constitution, operation, and policy for protection of human research participants.

The institutional review board is crucial to ensure the scientific and ethical quality of human participant research. This paper analyzes a survey on the current constitution and operation of institutional review boards (IRBs) in Korea, conducted by the Korean Association of Institutional Review Boards in April 2002. Out of 74 IRBs, 63 responded to the survey (85.1% response rate). IRB membersh...

E-recruitment based clinical research: notes for Research Ethics Committees/Institutional Review Boards.

Patient recruitment is a critical point of today's clinical research. Several proposals have been made for improving it, but the effectiveness of these measures is actually uncertain. The use of Internet (e-recruitment) could represent a great chance to improve patient enrolment, even though the effectiveness of this implementation is not so evident. E-recruitment could bring some advantages, s...

Guidance and Ethical Considerations for Undertaking Transgender Health Research and Institutional Review Boards Adjudicating this Research

The purpose of this review is to create a set of provisional criteria for Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) to refer to when assessing the ethical orientation of transgender health research proposals. We began by searching for literature on this topic using databases and the reference lists of key articles, resulting in a preliminary set of criteria. We then collaborated to develop the followi...