Corporate Social Responsibility of Hospital: Tri-Service General Hospital Institutional Review Board as Example

• Main Authors: LEE, CHIA-CHIH, 李佳芝
• Other Authors: GUO YAO-CHANG
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/65573100773094885187

碩士 === 中國文化大學 === 社會企業管理碩士在職學位學程 === 105 === Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been widely regarded by the public and has become a new trend in corporate governance. The ethical standards of medical research should be based on respecting and ensuring all human subjects' health and rights and benefits. When a physician participates in the medical research, he has to assume the responsibility of protecting the life, health, dignity, integrity, autonomy, privacy, and personal data confidentiality of the subjects. In order to meet the requirements of corporate social responsibility and clinical ethics, an institutional review board (IRB) for protecting human subjects in study and improving their well-being and safety has been established at the institution. In this study, a qualitative research method using in-depth interview was employed to investigate the corporate social responsibility, reflected in the TSGHIRB, based on the four kinds of business-oriented social responsibility, i.e. sustainable management, ethical governance, social commitments, and positive strength, through interviewing some key personnel served in the TSGHIRB, such as convener (chairman) (current or incumbent) and senior members , all with experience more than three years in reviewing the protocols regarding human trial/research. In addition, all the interviewees have been involved in the IRB international accreditation for IRBs or site audits sponsored by Joint Commission of Taiwan. We concluded that, in corporate social responsibility, TSGHIRB still had some weakness in social commitment and positive strength. Since this interview has been carried out in only one IRB, we suggest that future related research be implemented in a number of IRBs at medical centers or teaching hospitals to glean different perspectives to lead to better understanding how IRBs could help the hospital implement corporate social responsibility.