Institutional Review Board Approval as an Educational Tool

A Survey on the Application of Educational Lighting Board as an Educational Aid Tool of Occupational Health Students

Background & Objective: Lighting lessons is necessary for the occupational health students. Educational aids are essential in promotion of learning. This study aims to evaluate students’ learning in practical part of lighting lesson by using educational resources of lighting boards. Materials and Methods: In a quasi-experimental study that was carried out on occupational health students of Nor...

Variations in Institutional Review Board Approval in the Implementation of an Improvement Research Study

The purpose of this paper is to report the variance in institutional review board (IRB) reviews as part of the implementation of a multisite, quality improvement study through the Improvement Science Research Network (ISRN) and recommend strategies successful in procuring timely IRB approval. Using correspondence documents as data sources, the level of review was identified and time to submissi...

Protecting vulnerable research subjects: practical realities of institutional review board review and approval.

Institutional Review Board Mission

In this article, I scrutinize the process by which scientific research on human subjects is regulated by Institutional Review Boards (IRBs). At the outset, let us agree that at least some biomedical scientific research on human subjects must be externally monitored and that whether government should sometimes be involved in that process is at least an open question. We simply cannot forget the ...

Need for Clinical Trial Registry and Institutional Review Board Approval in Human Subjects Research

Declaration (revised edition of 2004) and in principle undergo scrutiny of an independent IRB which reviews ethical issues of the human experiment. But, in clinical studies, the approval of the IRB and patient’s consent must be received and stated on paper.” We must change our guidelines according to the revised act by changing ‘clinical studies’ to “human subjects research.” Some researchers m...