Human Subjects Research
Mayo Clinic Center for Clinical and Translational Research—Ethics Research Resource
NIH/NCRR
This cross-disciplinary center provides infrastructure for clinical and translational research and includes an Ethics Research Resource. The overarching theme of the Resource is “moving ethics beyond compliance.” Its goals are to:
- Provide consultative services to investigators at all phases of project development and contribute to didactic education in scientific integrity and
- Generate evidence-based innovation in clinical research ethics practices and procedures through the creation of an incubator for developing new methods for studying clinical research.
Managing Incidental Findings in Human Subjects Research
NIH (PI: Susan Wolf, University of Minnesota)
The goal of this project is to reach a normative consensus on how to manage incidental findings, to recommend language for consent forms, and to provide sustained analysis of the problem of incidental findings.
Assessing Patient Comprehension of Informed Consent
Mayo Clinic (PI: Timothy Beebe, Ph.D., Survey Research Center)
This pilot study seeks to understand barriers to patient comprehension of informed consent in three populations of subjects enrolled in on-going research studies: a large minimal risk, non-interventional epidemiologic study, cancer clinical trials, and healthy volunteers enrolled in physiology studies.
