Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) are set up to address regulatory and compliance issues
involved in research, but not the broad social implications of research protocols. In fact, the …

Certainly, institutional review boards (IRBs) are not optimally positioned or constructed to
evaluate the long-term social implications of research within their review process, and such …

Clinical research is increasingly conducted in settings that include private physicians'
offices, clinics, community hospitals, local institutes, and independent research centers. The …

In “IRB and Research Regulatory Delays Within the Military Health Care Setting: Do They
Really Matter? And If So, Why and for Whom?,” Freed and colleagues (Freed etal. 2016) …

A state law extending the federal protections in The Common Rule to all human subjects is a
reasonable way to promote justice by extending the reach of our current regulations to cover …

Independent review and oversight have long been recognized as requirements for ethical
research involving human participants, leading institutional review boards (IRBs) to become …

Institutional review boards (IRBs) or research ethics committees provide a core protection for
human research participants through advance and periodic independent review of the …

It seemed straightforward on its surface: a minimal-risk study to look at financial incentives
for evidence-based treatment of hypertension. In the end, however, it took 27 months and …

This article presents a review of the literature, summarizes current initiatives, and provides a
heuristic for assessing the effectiveness of a range of institutional review board (IRB) …

The institutional review board (IRB) is a federally mandated group instituted by the US
government to protect the rights and welfare of human subjects engaged in clinical research …