Answer in numbered format with the sources throughout and cited at the end in APA format. No cover page. Please use a minimum of 200 words for each number. Use the academic sources provided to answer. Additional sources can be used after the required are referenced.

1)      After completing the background reading, please prepare a posting in which you discuss the differences between institutional ethics committees and institutional review boards. How are they similar? How do they differ?

2)     Based on these topics (healthcare ethics committees & IRBs) and readings, please prepare a response to the following assertion made by one of your colleagues:

“These institutional review boards are ridiculous! They try to control the type of research that we do—they are so biased and only serve as a barrier to progress!”

Sources:

Required Reading:

Chaet, D. (2016, May). The AMA code of medical ethics’ opinions on ethics committees and consultations. AMA Journal of Ethics, 18(5), 499-500. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2016.18.05.coet1-1605. Retrieved from http://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/2016/05/coet1-1605.html

  Jacobs, R. (n.d.). Institutional review boards and independent ethics committees. Retrieved from http://www.pharmpress.com/files/docs/principles_clinpract_sample.pdf

National Advisory Board on Social Welfare and Health Care Ethics. Retrieved from http://www.etene.fi/en

Pozgar, E. Health Care Ethics Committees. Chapter 4. Retrieved from http://www.jblearning.com/samples/0763764736/64739_CH04_Pozgar.pdf  (Focus on pp 142-145)

Suter, W. N. & Suter, P. (2016). Institutional review boards evaluate good science. Home Health Care Management and Practice. doi 10.1177/1084822316674454.

University of Washington School of Medicine. (2016, February). Ethics Committees, Programs and Consultation Retrieved from https://depts.washington.edu/bioethx/topics/ethics.html

Optional Readings:

 Bozeman, B., Slade, C. & Hirsch, P. (2009). Understanding bureaucracy and health science ethics: Toward a better institutional review board. American Journal of Public Health, 99(9), 1549-1556.

Perlman, D. (2012). Rethinking local institutional review board (IRB) review at state health departments: Implications for a consolidated, independent public health IRB. Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 40(4), 997-1007. doi:10.1111/j.1748-720X.2012.00727.x. Retrieved from EBSCO multi-search database in the Touro library.

American Medical Association. Opinion 9.1 Ethics committees in health care institutions. Retrieved from http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/physician-resources/medical-ethics/code-medical-ethics/opinion911.page