Research design
American Academy of Orthotists and Prosthetists: Research forum - Protocol and Procedures
This article will address the essentials, goals and objectives of the research protocol.
ASSERT - A statement for the scientific and ethical review of randomized clinical trials
The ASSERT statement represents a declaration and elaboration of the necessary requirements for the ethical conduct of human subjects research in the form of randomized controlled clinical trials. This page provides a checklist which contains informational items pertinent to each of the five sections to be addressed in the Application for Research. Hyperlinked items in the description sections will direct the reader to separate pages wherein elaboration is provided. Some of the hyperlinks will take the reader to pages on the CONSORT website where specific examples and elaboration will be found.
ClinicalTrials.gov
A service of the United States National Institutes of Health Developed by the National Library of Medicine. ClinicalTrials.gov provides regularly updated information about federally and privately supported clinical research in human volunteers. ClinicalTrials.gov gives you information about a trial's purpose, who may participate, locations, and phone numbers for more details.
Guidelines on Privacy in the Private Health Sector
This document, written by the Australian Government, aims to assist the private health sector to better understand the application of the National Privacy principals to its business and services.
Info Bytes
Informative and skill-building on-line fact sheets. For information, resources and links relevant to primary health care practice, research, evaluation, collaboration, and communication.
Institutional Review Board Guidebook: Considerations of Research Design
This document provides information on a range of ethical issues to be considered for research design. This is a US document and some issues may vary from Australian Standards.
National Health and Medical Research Council
This page provides links to documents produced by the Australian Health Ethics Committee or the National Health and Medical Research Council on ethically significant issues relating to human health and research.
Primary Health Care Research Evaluation and Development - South Australia 2007 Research Capacity Building Short Course
Resources available from a number of sessions e.g. the importance of planning your research and establishing the research question; writing a research proposal, ethics, informed consent and privacy.
Protocol design template
The University of Pennsylvania provides a template with detailed information on content.
South Australian Research Network Snapshots
Two page handouts on a variety of relevant research topics e.g. applying for ethics approval.
University of East Anglia Norwich: Writing a research protocol
This document provides a basic structure for writing a research protocol.