Institutional review boards - a mixed blessing
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Institutional review boards - a mixed blessing
Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) are an important checkpoint for all types of research in medicine. Although these bodies originated primarily in the developed world, they have special contemporary consideration in the context of developing countries due to the large number of clinical trials being conducted in these regions with the financial support of large pharmaceutical companies. IRBs a...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Archives of Medicine
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1755-7682
DOI: 10.1186/1755-7682-4-19