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Performance of IRBs in China: a survey on IRB employees and researchers’ experiences and perceptions
BackgroundPerformance evaluation is vital for IRB operations. As the number of IRBs and their responsibilities in reviewing and supervising clinical...
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Analysis of factors influencing the organizational capacity of Institutional Review Boards In China: a crisp-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis based on 107 cases
BackgroundInstitutional Review Boards (IRBs) play a vital role in safeguarding the rights and interests of both research participants and...
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Institutional review boards in Saudi Arabia: the first survey-based report on their functions and operations
BackgroundInstitutional review boards (IRBs) are formally designated to review, approve, and monitor biomedical research. They are responsible for...
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Stakeholder Engagement and (the Limits of) IRB Review
While IRB review and stakeholder engagement both aim to ensure that research is safe, respectful, beneficial, and fair, the relationship between...
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Ethics Review of Biomedical Research in Uzbekistan: Policy and Program Gaps
We describe the national health research ethics review system of Uzbekistan and identify policy and program gaps that impede the protection of human...
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Institutional Review Board (IRB): US Perspectives
The institutional review board (IRB) is a federally mandated group instituted by the U.S. government to protect the rights and welfare of human...
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Institutional Review Boards and Public Justification
Ethics committees like Institutional Review Boards and Research Ethics Committees are typically empowered to approve or reject proposed studies,...
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How ethics committees and requirements are structuring health research in the Philippines: a qualitative study
BackgroundThe last few decades have seen the rising global acknowledgment of the importance of ethics in the conduct of health research. But research...
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Fragmented or centralized?: Comparative case study of ethical frameworks for social research in Philippines and Taiwan
With the delegation of ethical checking mechanisms to the institutional review boards (IRBs), flexible interpretations of overarching research ethics...
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The Ethics of Biomedical Practitioners: A Brief Historical Introduction
This chapter provides a brief introductory history of biomedical practitioners’ efforts at self-regulation though oaths, codes, and statements of...
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Clinical Ethics Committees in Africa: lost in the shadow of RECs/IRBs?
BackgroundClinical Ethics Committees (CECs) are well established at healthcare institutions in resource-rich countries. However, there is limited...
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Ethics in Life Sciences and Research
Ethics of clinical research deals with norms and values defining what ought and ought not to be done in the context of clinical trials to protect the...
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Institutional Review Boards (See Research Ethics; Research Ethics Committees)
Institutional review boards (IRBs) are biomedical or clinical research ethics committees whose job is to decide whether clinical research should be...
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Cross-cultural validation of the IRB Researcher Assessment Tool: Chinese Version
BackgroundUsing an effective method for evaluating Institutional Review Board (IRB) performance is essential for ensuring an IRB’s effectiveness,...
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Representing and Protecting: Gatekeepers in Community-Engaged Research
Community and patient stakeholder partners serve in many roles. One particularly important role of community and patient organizations and...
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Feeding back of individual genetic results in Botswana: map** opportunities and challenges
PurposeWe explored the views of Botswana stakeholders involved in develo**, implementing and applying ethical standards for return of individual...
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Clarifying how to deploy the public interest criterion in consent waivers for health data and tissue research
BackgroundSeveral jurisdictions, including Singapore, Australia, New Zealand and most recently Ireland, have a public interest or public good...
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How do 66 European institutional review boards approve one protocol for an international prospective observational study on traumatic brain injury? Experiences from the CENTER-TBI study
BackgroundThe European Union (EU) aims to optimize patient protection and efficiency of health-care research by harmonizing procedures across Member...
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Community Research Ethics Oversight: Place, Experience, and Expertise
Urban communities experiencing marginalization often disproportionately bear the risks and burdens of research and are left out of research ethics...
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Who to engage in HIV vaccine trial benefit-sharing negotiations? An empirical proposition of a framework
BackgroundA morally sound framework for benefit-sharing is crucial to minimize research exploitation for research conducted in develo** countries....
