CITI COI, CITI RCR, CITI social & behavioral research, clinical ethics exam 1 Correct 100%

Within how many days of acquiring or discovering a significant financial interest is the investigator required to submit an updated disclosure to the institution? - ANSWER 30 days. Which of the following is true regarding the U.S. Public Health Service and its approach to the disclosure of significant financial interests? - ANSWER Any equity interest in a non-publicly traded company must be disclosed. According to the U.S. Public Health Service regulations, investigators are required to disclose travel sponsored or reimbursed by: - ANSWER A publicly traded company. According to the U.S. Public Health Service, a "significant financial interest" includes royalty income paid to an investigator and its disclosure is required: - ANSWER Except if that income is from the institution that currently employs the investigator. An investigator received $4,000 of consulting income from a publicly traded drug company over the past 12 months. The investigator also owns stock in that company valued at $2,000. The investigator is submitting a grant to the National Institutes of Health that involves evaluating the effectiveness of a drug produced by the same drug company. Which of the following is true? - ANSWER The aggregate of the consulting income and the stock exceeds $5,000 and therefore is a significant financial interest. Which of the following statements most accurately describes a mitigation report? - ANSWER A report to the U.S. Public Health Service of efforts that will be taken by the institution to deal with any bias that was found in research conducted while there was an unreported financial conflict of interest. The U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) requires institutions to: - ANSWER Disclose their investigators' new financial conflicts of interest to the PHS awarding component within 60 days of discovering them. Which of the following statements is true regarding the reporting of outside interests and the management of conflicts? - ANSWER Investigators must disclose their significant financial interests related to their institutional responsibilities and not just those related to a particular project. Institutions are required by the U.S. Public Health Service to do which of the following: - ANSWER Evaluate whether a significant financial interest is related to an investigator's research and constitutes a financial conflict of interest. Which of the following financial conflict of interest information must be made available by institutions on a public website or within five business days upon request? - ANSWER The financial conflicts of interest of senior/key personnel on projects funded by the U.S. Public Health Service. According to the U.S. Public Health Service, which of the following would be considered a significant financial interest? - ANSWER An equity interest valued at $5,000 owned by the investigator's spouse in a company that produces products related to the investigator's institutional responsibilities According to the U.S. Public Health Service, the definition of the term "investigator": - ANSWER Includes anyone involved in the conduct or reporting of research