The Research Compliance Network (RCN) is a national consortium of representatives from academic medical centers, universities, and hospitals who are interested in postapproval monitoring and quality assurance and quality improvement activities (QA/QI). The group serves as a communication forum that allows members to exchange best practices, share strategies and resources, and collaborate to develop new tools. The RCN continues to grow and welcomes new members. Read more
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By Maeve Luthin, Project Coordinator
Yesterday, we shared with you a list of items that we will work on to ensure that our 2013 Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) Conference surpasses your expectations. Today, we welcome you to join us as we relish some of the successes of 2012. Below are the top five successes that we hope to repeat [...] Read more
by Maeve Luthin, Project Coordinator
Thanks to everyone who took the time to complete the 2012 IACUC Conference evaluation, we have tons of feedback on various aspects of the conference. As we continue to plan ahead, we promise to work hard to correct things those that did not go right this time around. We wanted to share with you our strategies [...] Read more
Poster Spotlight: Developing Indicators for Measuring Quality of Exempt and Expedited Reviews
Tags:With the all for Poster Abstracts open for the 2012 Advancing Ethical Research (AER) Conference, I invite you to join me, Avery Avrakotos, PRIM&R’s education and policy coordinator, as I interview poster presenters from past conferences. This week, I will chat with Helen Panageas, associate director at the New York University School of Medicine, and Caryn Diuguid, continuous quality improvement manager.
In 2011, Helen, Caryn, and their colleagues reviewed exempt and expedited protocol submission materials to determine if all regulatory requirements were satisfied. Through this research, the team sought to [...] Read more
by Amy Davis, JD, MPH, Senior Director for Programs and Publications at PRIM&R
Remember the Johns Hopkins-Michigan study in which the Michigan Hospital system implemented an intensive care unit-based check-list system for inserting a catheter to reduce central line infections? The project was submitted to the Johns Hopkins Medical Institution’s (JHMI) institutional review board (IRB) in 2004, who categorized the [...] Read more