Ensuring a HIPAA- Compliant Informed Consent Process

Softbound: 158 pages
ISBN 1930624395
CenterWatch Inc / Thomson American Health Consultants
February 2003
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The new HIPAA regulations substantially impact clinical research activity - most notably the informed consent process. This guidebook from CenterWatch is designed to assist clinical research professionals in complying with the new and final HIPAA regulations.

Ensuring a HIPAA-Compliant Informed Consent Process - both an instruction manual and reference resource - provides detailed guidelines on how to manage and conduct a HIPAA-compliant and IRB-acceptable informed consent process.

The guide includes sample language and templates for the HIPAA Authorization Form and informed consent forms for use in a variety of clinical research studies including genetic testing, tissue banking and assent. An extensive glossary of terms for use in preparing informed consent documents and convenient and easy-to-reference regulatory guidelines are also included. This book features:

Practical approaches to incorporating HIPAA language into a wide variety of informed consent forms
Ways to avoid unnecessary IRB objections
Discussion of Common Rule requirements and GCP-ICH recommendations
How to examine whether the consent language puts your institution at risk
Sample HIPAA-compliant language and useful templates

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