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Institutional Review Board

The Institutional Review Board (IRB) is the independent ethics committee established at research institutions to review and approve human subjects research, ensuring compliance with ethical principles and federal regulations. Created as a legal requirement by the U.S. National Research Act (1974) and now adopted globally, the IRB serves as the primary mechanism for protecting research subjects while enabling legitimate research to proceed. No human subjects research can begin without IRB approval.

Sources recorded, not reviewed

Source record

Citations copied verbatim from the method’s source record. No claim-level verification is inferred from them.

Institutional Review Board: Structure, Function, and Protocol Review
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / research-ethics
  • U.S. Code of Federal Regulations, Title 45, Part 46: Protection of Human Subjects. Office of the Federal Register. · URL
  • U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Human Research Protections. (2016). Federalwide Assurance (FWA) for Protection of Human Subjects. Policy on IRB composition and review procedures. · URL
  • National Institutes of Health. (2020). Institutional Review Boards Frequently Asked Questions. Office of Science Policy. · URL
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Curated claims

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Related methods

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Same method familyBelmont Reportmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyDeclaration of Helsinkimachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyInformed Consent in Researchmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyResearch Integrity Principlesmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.

Evidence status

Sources recorded, not reviewed

Bibliographic sources are present. Claim-level evidence review has not been performed.

Sources

3 recorded citations, copied from the method source record.

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