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A central institutional review board for multi-institutional trials
- Source :
- The New England journal of medicine. 346(18)
- Publication Year :
- 2002
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Abstract
- These are difficult times for the nation's system of protection for human subjects in research.1–10 On the basis of a series of reports, the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services concluded that institutional review boards (IRBs) are now forced to “review too much, too quickly, with too little expertise,” and with inadequate resources.6 One consequence is that there is minimal, often perfunctory, review of ongoing research. In addition, IRB members have become disillusioned as a result of both public criticism concerning the perceived failures of the boards and the increasing amount of . . .
- Subjects :
- Centralisation
Gerontology
medicine.medical_specialty
Clinical Trials as Topic
business.industry
Public health
MEDLINE
Pilot Projects
General Medicine
Public relations
Institutional review board
United States
Clinical trial
National Institutes of Health (U.S.)
Medicine
Criticism
Humans
Multicenter Studies as Topic
business
Human services
Inspector general
Ethics Committees, Research
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15334406
- Volume :
- 346
- Issue :
- 18
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- The New England journal of medicine
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....cdb99f9c46ce2d3e0f05ff37046fdaa0