How Single Institutional Review Boards Manage Their Own Conflicts of Interest: Findings From a National Interview Study.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Conflicts of interest (COIs) are important ethical concerns because they may affect scientific decision making, research integrity, and the safety and fairness of studies. No research to date has examined COIs of single institutional review boards (sIRBs), which are now mandated by the National Institutes of Health, and will be by the revised Common Rule in 2020, for all multisite research. This study investigated how different types of sIRBs manage their own COIs by documenting existing processes for and comparing commercial, government, and academic sIRBs.

Method

One hundred three personnel from 20 commercial, government, or academic sIRBs participated in semistructured interviews about their processes for and experiences with managing COIs when conducting multisit

SUBMITTER: Pivovarova E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6768761 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature