Debate Over Institutional Review Boards Continues as Alternative Options Emerge
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Debate over institutional review boards continues as alternative options emerge.
O n Jan. 1, the University of Minnesota launched a major overhaul of its institutional review boards (IRBs) with the goal of increasing efficiency, quality, and — most importantly for many IRB critics — the speed with which it reviews new clinical trial protocols. The reforms represent one approach to fi xing the problems that have been plaguing IRBs everywhere for more than a decade. Charged w...
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عنوان ژورنال: JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0027-8874,1460-2105
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/djk157