Building a Central Repository for Research Ethics Consultation Data: A Proposal for a Standard Data Collection Tool
Year: 2015
Type: article
Abstract: Clinical research ethics consultation services have been established across academic health centers over the past decade. This paper presents the results of collaboration within the CTSA consortium to develop a standard approach to the collection of research ethics consultation information to serve as a foundation for quality improvement, education, and research efforts. This approach includes categorizing and documenting descriptive information about the requestor, research project, the ethical question, the consult process, and describing the basic structure for a consult note. This paper also explores challenges in determining how to share some of this information between collaborating institutions related to concerns about confidentially, data quality, and informatics. While there is much still to be learned to improve the process of clinical research ethics consultation, these tools can advance these efforts, which, in turn, can facilitate the ethical conduct of research.
DOI: 10.1111/cts.12268
Institutions: Stanford University, Johns Hopkins University, Mayo Clinic, University of California, Davis, Oregon Health & Science University, Fred Hutch Cancer Center, University of Southern California, University of Washington, University of Cincinnati, The Ohio State University, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Indiana University School of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Seattle Children's Research Institute
Language: English
Topic: Ethics in Clinical Research
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
Awards: UT Southwestern Center for Translational Medicine (UL1/KL2/TL1), G2099484060, Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, Spectrum Stanford Center for clinical and Translational Research and Education, Mayo Clinic Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCaTS), Southern California Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Institute of Translational Health Sciences, Institute for Translational Health Science (UL1), Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Institute of Translational Health Sciences
OpenAlex ID: W2123835530