PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Cynthia Lizette Villarreal AU - Michelle A Price AU - Ashley N Moreno AU - Alfonso Zenteno AU - Christine Saenz AU - Alexander Toppo AU - Juan Pablo Herrera-Escobar AU - Carrie A Sims AU - Eileen M Bulger ED - , TI - Regulatory challenges in conducting human subjects research in emergency settings: the National Trauma Research Action Plan (NTRAP) scoping review AID - 10.1136/tsaco-2022-001044 DP - 2023 Mar 01 TA - Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open PG - e001044 VI - 8 IP - 1 4099 - http://tsaco.bmj.com/content/8/1/e001044.short 4100 - http://tsaco.bmj.com/content/8/1/e001044.full SO - Trauma Surg Acute Care Open2023 Mar 01; 8 AB - The complexity of the care environment, the emergent nature, and the severity of patient injury make conducting clinical trauma research challenging. These challenges hamper the ability to investigate potentially life-saving research that aims to deliver pharmacotherapeutics, test medical devices, and develop technologies that may improve patient survival and recovery. Regulations intended to protect research subjects impede scientific advancements needed to treat the critically ill and injured and balancing these regulatory priorities is challenging in the acute setting. This scoping review attempted to systematically identify what regulations are challenging in conducting trauma and emergency research. A systematic search of PubMed was performed to identify studies published between 2007 and 2020, from which 289 articles that address regulatory challenges in conducting research in emergency settings were included. Data were extracted and summarized using descriptive statistics and a narrative synthesis of the results. The review is reported in accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews guidelines. Most articles identified were editorial/commentary (31%) and published in the USA (49%). Regulatory factors addressed in the papers were categorized under 15 regulatory challenge areas: informed consent (78%), research ethics (65%), institutional review board (55%), human subjects protection (54%), enrollment (53%), exception from informed consent (51%), legally authorized representative (50%), patient safety (41%), community consultation (40%), waiver of informed consent (40%), recruitment challenges (39%), patient perception (30%), liability (15%), participant incentives (13%), and common rule (11%). We identified several regulatory barriers to conducting trauma and emergency research. This summary will support the development of best practices for investigators and funding agencies.