Rapid Review of Therapy Protocols for Public Health Emergencies
Bruce G. Gordon,
Abigail E. Lowe,
Christopher J. Kratochvil
Abstract:How research during a public health emergency is conducted is recognized as essential to the public health response to that emergency. Such research needs to undergo substantive and meaningful ethical review in a timely manner. Rapid ethical review may be accomplished through a number of mechanisms, including use of local rapid‐response institutional review boards (IRBs). We describe use of such a model in the setting of the 2014 Ebola virus disease epidemic and the Rapid‐Response IRB's subsequent transition t… Show more
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