Tag Archives: common rule

17 May
en, Guidelines & Regulations

Am I IRB Forum Shopping? – Introduction

We recently revisited the Montreal tuberculosis outbreak wherein we identified IRB Forum Shopping as the root cause of this tragedy. IRB Forum Shopping is an under-researched yet highly-relevant ethical issue in the context of the North American governance of clinical research. Essentially, it is the practice of choosing an IRB based on the relative ease […]

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15 Jan
en, Regulatory Affairs

Hey Canada! Should you care about the U.S. modernization of the “Common Rule”?

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (hereinafter HHS), as well as fifteen other Federal Departments, have announced proposed revisions to their policies for the protection of human research participants, known as the “Common Rule”. The 131-page document (also referred to as “NPRM”) can be found here and the public was invited to comment before […]

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