CHOP Facts
IRB SOPs
Anatomy of Informed Consent
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ICH Good Clinical Practice (GCP)
100

The CEO of CHOP

Who is Madeline Bell?

100

SOP 404: This should be submitted at least 30 days before the study approval period ends (expiration date) in order to provide sufficient time for review. 

What is the continuing review?

100

This is required for use or disclosure of private health information (PHI) for the purposes of research. It can be in a stand-alone document but is often combined in the informed consent document.  

What is HIPPA Authorization?

100

This manager has 3 children and they are all boys.

Who is Tonia?

100

This person should be qualified by education, training and experience to assume responsibility for the proper conduct of the trial and should provide evidence of such qualifications.

Who is the Principal Investigator?

200

CHOP is widely recognized as the first of this.

What is the First Children's Hospital?

200

SOP 701: A document used in the consent process with Limited English Proficiency subjects when the short form process is implemented.

What is a study summary document?

200

Two basic elements of informed consent involve disclosing "___" and "___" which describe any foreseeable discomforts to the subject and what they might gain from participating.

What are risks and benefits?

200

This manager loves playing scrabble!

Who is Donna?

200

The investigator must always follow the protocol but these may occur only when necessary to eliminate an immediate hazard(s) to trial participants. If they occur frequently or are in response to a hazard, a subsequent protocol amendment may be necessary. 

What are protocol deviations? 

300
CHOP was one of the first hospitals to treat genetic diseases with this treatment.

What is gene therapy?

300

SOP 408: Any untoward or unfavorable medical occurrence in a human subject, including any abnormal sign (for example, abnormal physical exam or laboratory finding), symptom, or disease, temporally associated with the subject’s participation in the research, whether or not considered related to the subject’s participation in the research.

What is an Adverse Event?

300

The consent document should be written using lay terms, and in a language the subject understands, which is also called this.

What is plain language?

300

This manager graduated from Cardinal O'Hara Highschool in Delco.

Who is Tina?

300

The responsibility of this entity entails the implementation of risk-proportionate approaches to ensure the rights, safety and well-being of the trial participants and the reliability of the trial results throughout the clinical trial life cycle.

Who is the sponsor?

400

The Roberts Center for Pediatric Research opened in "___". 

What is 2017.

400

SOP 501: Pregnant women, wards, and children are examples of this type of population. 

What are Vulnerable Subjects?

400

After reviewing the consent form, the investigators can use "___" to assess comprehension. Questions should be open-ended and should not involve yes or no questions.

What is the talk back method?

400

This manager met her two best friends in high school.

Who is Donna?

400

These should be attributable, legible, contemporaneous, original, accurate and complete. 

What are source records?
500

CHOP reports this many total outpatient and primary care visits annually (rounded number).

What is 2 million?

500

SOP 412: A medical device intended to benefit patients in the treatment or diagnosis of a disease or condition that affects or is manifested in not more than 8,000 individuals in the United States per year.

What is a Humanitarian Use Device (HUD)?

500

This visual can be used on a consent form as a representation to explain risk. The IRB states: "low numeracy is an even bigger problem than low literacy level."

What are graphical representations?

500

This manager was as a Magnet committee member back in 2004 when CHOP obtained their first accreditation. We were the first pediatric hospital in PA to receive this status.

Who is Tina?

500

This should be developed and updated as significant new information on the investigational product becomes available.

What it the investigator's brochure?