From Moving Beyond Compliance to Quality to Moving Beyond Quality to Effectiveness
Realities and Challenges
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12807191 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Min‐Fu Tsan (0000-0002-0142-1873, McGuireWoods, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 204-208 |
| Publication date | 2019-05-25 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1556-2646 • E-ISSN: 1556-2654 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1556264619850710 |
| PMID | 31131677 |
| OpenAlex | W2945189456 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 16 |
In 2007, Taylor proposed to move beyond compliance to develop measures for assessing the ethical quality of institutional review board (IRB) reviews. To date, no such tool has been developed. In 2018, Lynch et al. proposed to move beyond quality to advance effective research ethics oversight. Instead of providing a set of measures, they proposed to define and specify ways to measure the effectiveness of IRBs in protecting human subjects. They further claimed that any attempts to measure the quality and performance of IRBs without using such measures, to be developed by them in the unforeseeable future, were not helpful. The realities are that nearly 50 years after its establishment, there has been no systematic assessment of the quality and performance of IRBs, and that nearly two decades after the deaths of Jesse Gelsinger and Ellen Roche and the implementation of reform processes to improve our system of protecting human subjects, there is still plenty of room for improvement. The challenges today are for Taylor to come up with a tool to measure the ethical quality of IRB reviews, for Lynch et al. to develop measures for assessing the effectiveness of IRBs in protecting human subjects, and for the IRB community to decide whether to continue to wait for Taylor and Lynch et al. to develop their promised tools or to start taking advantage of performance measurements to improve the quality and performance of IRBs by using existing IRB performance metrics or to improve those existing performance metrics
Business · Compliance (psychology · Quality (philosophy · Quality management · Set (abstract data type · Biomedical Ethics and Regulation · Computer Science · Ethics in Clinical Research · Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life · Psychology · Social Psychology · Marketing
A Systematic Review of the Empirical Literature Evaluating IRBs
Research Ethics Committees’ Oversight of Biomedical Research in South Africa
The Contribution of Ethics Review to Protection of Human Participants
Effectiveness of Human Research Protection Program Performance Measurements
Measuring the Quality and Performance of Institutional Review Boards
Of Parachutes and Participant Protection
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
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| Citation span | 2020 - 2021 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |