Case Bank – CENTRES

Health information study

Stream: Research Ethics

Topic: Consent, HBRA, Minimal Risk

A researcher wishes to conduct a retrospective observational study on the health records of patients at a particular hospital who recently underwent a cardiovascular surgery in the past year. The researcher would be looking for correlations between long-term complications arising from the surgery and an array of risk factors indicated in the patients’ charts –
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Health & Grades Study

Stream: Research Ethics

Topic: Consent, Consent Waivers, HBRA, HBRA Scope, Social – Behavioural and Educational Research

A professor is interested in the extent to which students’ medical issues affect their academic ability. He wants to recruit students at his college to fill in a questionnaire concerning any major health issues they have had in the past year, including dates and purpose of non-routine visits to the college’s health services. He also
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Fitness band

Stream: Research Ethics

Topic: HBRA, HBRA Scope

The proposed study will test the effect of a fitness band combined with monetary incentives on the fitness activity of participants. Participants will be given a fitness band to wear that monitors their number of steps taken each day, over a period of a month, and transmits the information to a central server. Each day
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Conformity replication

Stream: Research Ethics

Topic: IRB Review, Minimal Risk, Risk/Benefit Assessment, Social – Behavioural and Educational Research

A student wishes to replicate Milgram’s famous conformity study, with a slight modification. Subjects will be informed they and another volunteer are participating in a teaching intervention test. Subjects are told that they will be a “tester” and other volunteer will be a “learner” given a series of questions, and the tester are to press
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Collaborative trial

Stream: Research Ethics

Topic: HBRA, IRB Review

An employee at institution A, a physical therapy centre, wishes to conduct an investigation into the effects of a new massage technique developed by the employee on relieving pain in individuals who suffer from chronic back problems. Institution A does not routinely conduct human subjects research, and as such is not registered as a research
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High-paying survey

Stream: Research Ethics

Topic: Inducement, Social – Behavioural and Educational Research

A business school professor with a sizeable research budget would like to study attitudes of corporate leaders concerning effective leadership strategies that have allowed their companies to thrive. A corporate leadership training firm has agreed to forward the study invitation to its clients. Participants are to fill out an online questionnaire that lasts about 45
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Adolescent Sleep Study

Stream: Research Ethics

Topic: Consent, HBRA, HBRA Scope, Inducement, Minors, Social – Behavioural and Educational Research

Laura Chouette on Unsplash This study aims to measure the mental, educational and physiological effects of sleep deprivation on adolescents and means of alleviating those effects. Participants are aged 13–18, and will spend 15 days sequestered in a study facility under the supervision of the study team. They may be in contact with parents and
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Unaffordable Care

Stream: Clinical Ethics

Topic: Clinical Ethics Committee Review, Financial Issues

The Nice United Hospital has in the previous year incurred bed debts totalling 3 million dollars arising from treatment provided to inadequately insured foreigners, the majority of whom were emergency admissions. Consultants have been reminded to consider carefully the patient’s ability to pay the fees before embarking on especially for non-emergency treatment and if deemed
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Terminal Discharge

Stream: Clinical Ethics

Topic: Discharge, End of Life, Standard of Care

Mr N was diagnosed with cancer last year and treated with chemotherapy. He was diagnosed with brain metastasis on this admission. Mr N spoke to several nurses and said he wanted to stay in hospital. He did not want to burden his relatives at home because they were busy working. When the nurses asked him
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