Applied Ethical Issues in Health Services Research

0.5 Unit · Graduate

This seminar provides an overview of core ethical concepts relevant to scientists conducting health services research. Ethical research topics include: working with large data sets, obtaining Institutional Review Board approval, quality improvement vs. research projects, vulnerable populations and community-based participatory research, informed consent, conflicts of interest, patient safety, using electronic health records as a data source and research misconduct and authorship dilemmas.