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IRB Library

The IRB maintains a small library filled with articles and case studies, and where you can find the following topics on ethics and regulation.  Our office is located in the Science, Engineering, and Research Building, Suite 140.

Regulation

  • Types of activities that require IRB review
  • What’s New in Compliance? An Update from the Office of Research Oversight, Department of Veteran Affairs – 2005 Annual HRPP Conferenc
  • Request for public comment on OHRP draft guidance document on engagement of institutions in human subject research
  • Building and training an IRB for the social and behavioral sciences
  • Ethical principles and guidelines for the protection of human subjects of researchCode of Federal Regulations – protections of human subjects
  • Human subject regulations decision charts office for human research protections – prisoner certification letter to OHRP
  • Knowledge of local research context
  • Guidance on certificates of confidentiality
  • Historical examples of social-behavioral research resulting in harm to human subjects or perception of controversy
  • Best practices in research with children and adolescents : a regulatory  overview and case study
  • Engagement of institutions in research
  • Benefit, risk and harm
  • Conflicts of interest & human subject research
  • Update on OHRP activities related  to adverse event reporting
  • Guidance on reviewing and reporting unanticipated problems involving risks to subjects or others and adverse events
  • A case study on research involving oral histories
  • Research on human subjects: academic freedom and the IRB
  • Guidance on research involving coded private information or biological specimens
  • Federal protection for human research subjects: an analyses of the common rule and its interactions with the FDA regulations and the HIPAA privacy rule – CRS report for congress
  • The HIPAA privacy rule, research and the IRBs
  • Summary of the HIPAA privacy rule
  • ORI introduction to RCR
  • International compilation of human subject research protections
  • Recombinant DNA research and institutional bio-safety committees
  • A conversation with the department of defense
  • The PriceWaterhouseCoopers guide for advertisements and incentive pay

Ethics

  • Cross-Cultural Considerations in Clinical Ethics Consultations
  • Ethics Research and Background
  • Ethical Issues in Equipoise: Concepts, Contentations, & Clarifications –  2005 HRPP Conference : Ethics and Trust Across Boundaries
  • Risk and Harm
  • Getting IRB Approval for Your Research
  • Biotech Death of Jesse Gelsinger
  • Jesse’s Intent by Paul Gelsinger
  • Brutal Case Studies: A New Book Documents A True Ethics Horror Story
  • DNA Gatherers Hit Snag: Tribes Don’t Trust Them
  • BMJ.COM Article: Cochrane Reviews Compared With Industry Supported Metal-Analyses, and Other Meta Analyses of the Same Drugs: Systematic Review
  • Doctors’ Ties to Drug Makers Are Put on Close View
  • Virtual Mentor – American Medical Association Journal of Ethics
  • Medical Ethics in Utah : Managing Medical Conflicts Of Interest
  • Human Subjects Protections and Anthropology – American Anthropological Association
  • Improving the System For Protecting Human Subjects: Counteracting IRB “Mission Creep”
  • IRBs: The Safety Gatekeepers
  • Watching the Watchman
  • Report: Research on Human Subjects – Academic Freedom and the IRB
  • The IRB Problem A Call To Arms
  • New Challenges Facing Interinstitutional Social Science & Educational Program Evaluation Research at Academic Health Centers: A Case Study From the Elam Program
  • Guidelines & Consensus Statements Regarding the Conduction & Reporting of Clinical Research Studies
  • Declines in Funding of NIH R01 Research Grants
  • Ethics and Clinical Research – The New England Journal Of Medicine
  • Protection of research subjects: a vital component of research grants – by Dennis B. Maloney
  • Newspaper article: ethics if testing super-aspirin debated (2001)
  • Newspaper article: Senator Kennedy seeks better protections for human research subjects (2002)
  • Protecting mental health research subjects without prohibiting progress
  • Risks and wrongs in social science research – an evaluator’s guide to the IRB
  • Prison Life Study
  • Protecting subjects with decisional impairment in research – the need for a multifaceted approach
  • “Special scrutiny” : A targeted form of research protocol review
  • The Therapeutic Misconception: Problems and Solutions
  • Rehabilitating Equipoise
  • Racial and ethnic disparities in health care (position paper of the American college of physicians
  • Ethical, legal and social implications of genomic medicine