Protecting Human Subjects: First Biennial Report on the Adequacy and Uniformity of Federal Rules and Policies and Their Implementation for the Protection of Human Subjects in Biomedical and Behavioral Research

摘要

Research with human beings plays an essential part in combatting disease and in expanding the frontiers of knowledge. In the Report, the President's Commission responds to the request of the Congress that it report every two years on the degree to which Federal departments and agencies are meeting that high ideal. First, the Report contains recommendations about the responsibilities of the Federal agencies in responding to reports of misconduct. Second, several recommendations are made to allow institutions internal flexibility in how they will investigate and adjudicate complaints against researchers. Finally, the Commission recommends that the number of subjects involved in, as well as the number adversely affected by, each research project be routinely collected by institutional review boards and reported by them to the sponsoring agencies.