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Institutional review boards (IRBs) are biomedical or clinical research ethics committees whose job is to decide whether clinical research should be approved or not. They were first established as legal entities in 1974.
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ten Have, H., Patrão Neves, M. (2021). Institutional Review Boards (See Research Ethics; Research Ethics Committees). In: Dictionary of Global Bioethics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54161-3_323
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