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IRB SOPs and Guidance

Standard Operating Procedures


  1. HRPP
  2. Assurance of Compliance
  3. IRB Authority
  4. IRB Composition and Membership
  5. Activities Subject to IRB Review
  6. Initial Review
  7. Exempt Review
  8. Subject Pools
  9. Expedited Review
  10. Continuing Review
  11. Changes to an Approved Protocol
  12. Criteria for Approval
  13. Adverse Events
  14. IRB Non-Compliance and Protocol Deviation 
  15. Self Exemption Determination

Guidance


  1. Lotteries/Drawings/Raffles
  2. HSR Data Disposition/Destruction Dates
  3. International Research
  4. Single IRB
  5. Deception and Incomplete Disclosure
  6. Focus Groups
  7. Recruitment - Snowball Sampling
  8. Zoom 
  9. Crowdsourcing based research
  10. Data Security
  11. Suicide Ideation

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