Maintaining research integrity : a systematic review of the role of the institutional review board in managing conflict of interest /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Shekelle, Paul G. (Author)
Corporate Authors:	West Los Angeles VA Medical Center. Evidence-Based Synthesis Program Center, Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (U.S.), Evidence-based Synthesis Program (U.S.)
Format:	Government Document eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, DC : Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration, Quality Enhancement Research Initiative, Health Services Research & Development Service, 2012.
Subjects:	Institutional review boards (Medicine) > United States. Conflict of interests > United States. Ethics committees > United States. Institutional review boards (Medicine) Conflict of interests. Ethics committees. United States. Technical reports.
Online Access:	https://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo154950

Description
Abstract:	Ethical integrity in the conduct of health care research is essential for maintaining the public trust and support of such activities. Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) play a critical role in maintaining the ethical integrity of research by reviewing research protocols to ensure, among other things, that research participants receive safe and ethical treatment and provide informed consent, and that the potential for a conflict of interest is minimized. The purpose of this review was to catalog the literature on issues pertaining to IRBs, to identify the issue with the greatest number of published studies which might inform VA policy, and to assess the evidence regarding that issue, which were conflict of interest policies and the activities of the IRB.
Item Description:	"Evidence-based synthesis program." "May 2012." GPO Cataloging Record Distribution Program (CRDP).
Physical Description:	1 online resource (iv, 53 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references.