Institutional Review Boards: What Clinician Researchers Need to Know
The institutional review board (IRB) is a group federally mandated to review and monitor research involving humans to ensure protection of their rights and welfare as research participants. Clinicians engaged in research require IRB approval for all research involving human participants, whether living individuals, data, or specimens. The process for obtaining IRB approval may seem like a daunting task. However, it is critical for clinical researchers to conduct research in a manner that protects human participants, and it is the mission of the IRB to help researchers accomplish this task.
Source: Mayo Clinic Proceedings - Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Maria I. Lapid, Bart L. Clarke, R. Scott Wright Tags: Concise review for clinicians Source Type: research
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