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Linda Cabral, Laura Sefton, and Kathy Muhr on Recruiting People with Mental Health Conditions for Data CollectionBlog post to AEA365, a blog sponsored by the American Evaluation Association (AEA) dedicated to highlighting Hot Tips, Cool Tricks, Rad Resources, and Lessons Learned for evaluators. The American Evaluation Association is an international professional association of evaluators devoted to the application and exploration of program evaluation, personnel evaluation, technology, and many other forms of evaluation. Evaluation involves assessing the strengths and weaknesses of programs, policies, personnel, products, and organizations to improve their effectiveness.
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Single IRBs in Multisite Trials: Questions Posed by the New NIH PolicyOf all the issues raised by the NIH single-IRB policy, the relationship between the single IRB and the participating sites is possibly the most complex. There are 3 critical aspects that academic institutions, researchers, and policy makers will have to resolve before implementation of the new policy: (1) the relationship between the single IRB and the local institutions, including the local IRBs; (2) the collection and incorporation of local knowledge in the single-IRB review; and (3) the relationship between the single IRB and local researchers. These issues involve fundamental legal, ethical, institutional, and policy tensions that will profoundly shape the costs and effectiveness of future multisite research involving human research participants.
