GAO Says "Gotcha!" to Coast IRB
Who knew that GAO was so crafty? Evidently not Coast IRB, for one. Well, maybe it's not quite SO crafty, but GAO was able to get the IRB to fall for a fake clinical trial that showed that the review board for hire was asleep at the wheel when it came time to review the phony study.
To read more about this, go to the Wall Street Journal Health Blog.
Summer Johnson, PhD
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News about Coast seems to have trickled out, bit by bit. The original accusations were relatively minor, but they got worse & worse.
Nancy Walton blogged about the original accusations in mid-March:
http://www.researchethics.ca/blog/2009/03/private-irb-subject-of-sting-operation.html
- by Chris MacDonald on Apr 20, 2009 at 1:19 AM | link