Institutional review boards (IRBs) are integral to the US system of protection of human
research participants. Evaluation of IRBs, although difficult, is essential. To date, no …

Context: Federal regulations mandate independent review and approval by an “institutional
review board”(IRB) before studies that involve human research subjects may begin …

Although the subject of federally mandated Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) has been
extensively debated, we actually do not know much about what takes place when they …

Tremendous advances have occurred in diabetes research over the past decade. Landmark
clinical trials such as the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT) and UK …

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Objective. To describe, qualitatively and quantitatively, the impact of a review by multiple
institutional review boards (IRBs) on the conduct of a multisite observational health services …

Institutional Review Boards (so-called" IRBs") license research in accord with federal policy.
The federal government seeks to minimize the risk that research performed on human …

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: To characterize the impact of multiple Institutional
Review Board (IRB) reviews on multicenter observational research studies, and identify …

There is no agreed definition of sensitive research (Dickson-Swift et al. 2007, 2009),
although the term most often refers to research about emotionally difficult topics that require …

In response to increasing concerns regarding inconsistency in the decision‐making of
institutional review boards (IRBs), we introduce the decision‐maker's dilemma, which arises …