New information on OHSRP website

All new pages can be found using the website search function.

• Posting Informed Consent Forms for Clinical Trials: This content replaces a former “Common Rule Bulletin”, which is no longer posted on the website. The page is linked from: Interventional Research (as this applies only to those protocols) and PI Roles & Responsibilities (as posting the consent is a PI responsibility).
• Screening for Research Studies: A new page under Conducting your Study that provides guidance on pre-screening and screening research activities.
• Developing Documents Using the Research Optimizer: The NCI has developed new AI tools to help study teams create research documents. These tools are available to anyone with an NIH login. This page is located under Consent Development.
  • ConsentCrafter (available now): drafts an informed consent form from your protocol
  • Translator (pilot phase): provides Spanish translations of consent documents

• New requirement for CR supplement form and study closure memo: This page has been posted in advance of a new requirement effective April 1, 2026.

• Report a Complaint: This page has been updated to include a new online form for submitting anonymous complaints directly to OHSRP.
• Intramural IRB Metrics: This page has been updated to include 2 new dashboards. These two new dashboards focus exclusively on the metrics for the external IRB process. The NIH IRB dashboards (the original ones) now only contain metrics for when the NIH IRB is the reviewing IRB.
• New IRB Members: The page now includes a link to the IRB Nominee Survey (online form). The previous document has been removed.
• Short Form Consent Documents: Short form consent documents have been updated to remove the administrative block. No new translations were required, and original dates have been retained to match existing certificates of translation.
• Consent Process FAQs: Updated to reflect current practices and remove references to the administrative block.
• Research Involving Children, Research Involving Prisoners, and Adults who lack capacity to consent to research: These pages have been updated to incorporate guidance content directly into the webpages. This improves searchability and replaces the separate guideline documents previously linked under each policy.