TY - JOUR
T1 - Transforming the culture of biomedical research from compliance to trustworthiness
T2 - Insights from nonmedical sectors
AU - Yarborough, Mark
AU - Fryer-Edwards, Kelly
AU - Geller, Gail
AU - Sharp, Richard R.
PY - 2009/4
Y1 - 2009/4
N2 - To discover ways that the biomedical research community can foster the public's trust essential to sustain the research enterprise, in 2005 the authors and their colleagues convened a group of national leaders from sectors outside of academic science and health care that are also dependent on the public's trust. These leaders provided information about what their sectors do to earn the public's trust that is applicable to academic biomedical research institutions, as well as insights into ways academic research institutions should respond to crises that have the potential to diminish the public's trust. The major strategies they identified for promoting the public's trust were the importance of fostering multiple types of relationships and developing accountability practices that exceed those required by external regulators.In this article, the authors compare these strategies with reports in the literature regarding efforts under way in health care to adapt strategies employed in other sectors to improve the safety of health care. On the basis of what the authors learned from both the national leaders outside of biomedical research and health care and the health care safety literature review, they present a set of recommendations for building and restoring trust, as well as a list of benchmarks for assessing the adequacy of efforts by research institutions to promote the public's trust in biomedical research.
AB - To discover ways that the biomedical research community can foster the public's trust essential to sustain the research enterprise, in 2005 the authors and their colleagues convened a group of national leaders from sectors outside of academic science and health care that are also dependent on the public's trust. These leaders provided information about what their sectors do to earn the public's trust that is applicable to academic biomedical research institutions, as well as insights into ways academic research institutions should respond to crises that have the potential to diminish the public's trust. The major strategies they identified for promoting the public's trust were the importance of fostering multiple types of relationships and developing accountability practices that exceed those required by external regulators.In this article, the authors compare these strategies with reports in the literature regarding efforts under way in health care to adapt strategies employed in other sectors to improve the safety of health care. On the basis of what the authors learned from both the national leaders outside of biomedical research and health care and the health care safety literature review, they present a set of recommendations for building and restoring trust, as well as a list of benchmarks for assessing the adequacy of efforts by research institutions to promote the public's trust in biomedical research.
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U2 - 10.1097/ACM.0b013e31819a8aa6
DO - 10.1097/ACM.0b013e31819a8aa6
M3 - Review article
C2 - 19318781
AN - SCOPUS:65249103277
SN - 1040-2446
VL - 84
SP - 472
EP - 477
JO - Academic Medicine
JF - Academic Medicine
IS - 4
ER -