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JOURNAL OF EMPIRICAL RESEARCH ON HUMAN RESEARCH ETHICS
Volume 13, Issue 4, Pages 432-437Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/1556264618780803
Keywords
IRB performance; quality; assessment; evaluation; research ethics committee; IRB; clinical trials; collaboration; evaluation research
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- National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health [UL1TR001436]
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Lengthy review times for institutional review boards (IRBs) are a well-known barrier to research. In response to numerous calls to reduce review times, we devised Real-Time IRB, a process that drastically reduces IRB review time. In this, investigators and study staff attend the IRB meeting and make changes to the protocol while the IRB continues its meeting, so that final approval can be issued at the meeting. This achieved an overall reduction in time from submission to the IRB to final approval of 40%. While this process is time and resource intensive, and cannot address all delays in research, it shows great promise for increasing the pace by which research is translated to patient care.
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