Abstract
We analyzed human research protection program performance metric data of all Department of Veterans Affairs research facilities obtained from 2010 to 2016. Among a total of 25 performance metrics, 21 (84%) showed improvement, four (16%) remained unchanged, and none deteriorated during the study period. The overall improvement from these 21 performance metrics was 81.1% ± 18.7% (mean ± SD), with a range of 30% to 100%. The four performance metrics that did not show improvement all had initial noncompliance/incidence rates of <1.0%, ranging from 0% to 0.98%. The initial noncompliance/incidence rates of the 21 performance metrics that showed improvement ranged from 0.05% to 60%. However, of the 21 performance metrics that showed improvement, 10 had initial noncompliance/incidence rates of <1.0%, suggesting that improvement could be achieved even with a very low initial noncompliance/incidence rate. We conclude that performance measurement is an effective tool in improving the performance of human research protection programs.
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