Institutional Review Board. An independent body constituted of medical, scientific and non-scientific members whose responsibility is to ensure the protection of the rights, safety and well-being of human subjects involved in a study by, among other things, reviewing, approving and providing continuing review of study protocol and amendments and of the methods used in obtaining and documenting informed consent of the study subjects. This term is used predominantly in North America and Japan. In Europe the equivalent body is the Independent (Research) Ethics Committee.
A local board at research centers whose job is to review experiments for the protection of patients.
The International Rugby Board. The IRB is the ruling body for Rugby Union worldwide and has primary responsibility for setting and adjusting the laws of the sport and running the Rugby World Cup championships for 15s and 7s every four years.
Investigational Review Board. IRBs are independent groups composed of healthcare professionals and community representatives that have the responsibility and authority to review and approve all studies involving human subjects in a particular community or facility. The IRB's main responsibility is to protect research participants (human volunteers). This includes minimizing the risks to the participants, ensuring that participants are informed of the study protocol, and ensuring that the participant's privacy is protected.
Investment Review Board. A decision-making body, made up of senior program, financial, and information managers, that is responsible for making decisions about IT projects and systems, based on comparisons and trade-offs between competing projects and an emphasis on meeting mission needs and improving organizational performance. [GAO
a group of individuals that has the authority to approve all research activities at an institution
Institutational Review Board
Investigational Review Board; reviews and approves clinical trial protocols
A faculty committee charged with reviewing and approving the use of human subjects in all research projects. The IRB serves as an institutional compliance committee and is responsible for reviewing reported instances of regulatory noncompliance related to the use of human subjects in research.|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || U - Z
Institutional Review Board. IRBs are composed of medical professionals as well as non-medical professionals and lay persons who review all research to protect participants. Specifically, they try to uphold three principles, namely respect for persons, beneficence and justice.
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Institutional Review Board. An independent group of professionals designated to review and approve the clinical protocol, informed consent forms, study advertisements, and patient brochures to ensure that the study is safe and effective for human participation.
institutional review board. one of the groups that monitors HVTN trials. Each research institution (such as a university) has an IRB, that reviews studies to make sure they are scientifically and ethically acceptable to the participant.
INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW BOARD. A group that approves studies proposed by investigators. Each institution that conducts research has an IRB made up of researchers and members of the public. The IRB must be sure that the study is managed in a way that protects those who participate in it. All clinical trials by federal regulation must be approved by the IRB prior to enrolling participants.
INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW BOARD. 1. A committee of physicians, statisticians, researchers, community advocates, and others that ensures that a clinical trial is ethical and that the rights of study participants are protected. All clinical trials in the U.S. must be approved by an IRB before they begin. 2. Every institution that conducts or supports biomedical or behavioral research involving human participants must, by federal regulation, have an IRB that initially approves and periodically reviews the research in order to protect the rights of human participants.
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INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW BOARD. A committee designated by an institution, such as a hospital, to review and approve research projects; e.g., clinical studies in that institution.
Institutional Review Board] A committee of people who typically reviews, approves or denies the right to conduct a scientific study. IRBâ€(tm)s assure that such studies are ethically and scientifically proper.
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Institutional Review Board. A panel created to look at and approve or reject clinical trial study proposals. An IRB is mandated by the FDA and is composed of many different types of people, including researchers, ethicists, lay people, treatment advocates, lawyers, clergy, and others. Clinical trials must be approved by an IRB before they can begin. IRBs are used to help ensure that patients are not exposed to unreasonable or unnecessary risks or unethical treatments.
Institutional Review Board, an independent committee of physicians, statisticians, community advocates, and others. The IRB is charged with ensuring that all clinical trials within a given medical institution are ethical and that the rights of the participants in those trials are protected.
See Institutional Review Board.
Institutional Review Board. A committee of medical specialists, lawyers, ethicists, commnity representatives, and clergy approved by the federal government to review, modify, approve, or disapprove the research trial.
Institutional Review Board. a board composed of medical professionals, members of the community, ethicists, and patient advocates that reviews the trial protocol to make sure that the research conducted will not expose patients to extreme or unethical risks.
Institutional Review Board. Each research institution has an Institutional Review Board. The IRB, which includes non-medical and medical people, reviews all protocols for patient safety. The board also reviews the consent information given to patients who are thinking about participating in the trial, to make sure that it is written in clear, understandable language.
Institutional Review Board. The board that oversees all research involving human subjects.
institutional review board. a committee of physicians, medical experts, researchers and community members which is responsible for ensuring that clinical trials conducted by a hospital or other institution are safe and ethical.
abbreviation, institutional review board. A committee at an institution or hospital involved in biomedical research that oversees all human trials. In the U.S., all clinical trials required by the FDA to be approved by the institution's IRB.
Institutional Review Board. Group made up of scientists, clergy, doctors, and citizens from the community, which approves and reviews all research taking place at an institution.
Institution Review Board. an IRB is an appropriately constituted group that has been formally designated to review and monitor biomedical research involving human subjects. It has the authority to approve, require modifications in, or disapprove research. The purpose of IRB review is to protect the rights and welfare of humans participating in research.
A committee of physicians, statisticians, community advocates and others that reviews clinical trial protocols before they can be initiated and is responsible for monitoring the safety of clinical trials at that instituition. IRBs ensure that the trial is ethical and that the rights of participants are adequately protected.
Institutional review board, for protection of human subjects of research. Required by 42 CFR 46 in every institution and agency conducting research involving human subjects with HHS funds.
Institutional Review Board (at AECOM, this is called the Committee on Clinical Investigation: CCI). Oversees all research involving human subjects.
Institutional Review Board. An IRB is composed of an independent, local group of researchers and community advocates who must review and approve each clinical trial protocol and associated consent materials before patients may be treated at their site.
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Institutional Review Board. a special committee designated to review research involving human participants to make sure that the safety, rights and welfare of human participants in clinical research are protected. All research involving human participants must be approved by the IRB before the research may proceed.
Institutional review board. An administrative body in an institution (such as a hospital or university) established to protect the rights and welfare of human research subjects recruited to participate in research activities conducted under the auspices of that institution. The IRB has the authority to approve, require modifications in, or disapprove research activities in its jurisdiction, as specified by both federal regulations and local institutional policy.
Institutional Review Board. A board consisting of health care professionals from the institution where the clinical trial takes place, as well as members of the local community. The board scrutinizes all trial activities including recruitment, advertising and potential risks. The IRB also makes sure that FDA regulations are being followed in a particular trial.
Institutional Review Board. Under the HIPAA rules, patient identifiable information can be collected for research without patient approval. The research, however, must be IRB Aproved. Otherwise, it can only be shared if explicit patient approval is obtained or if approved by a privacy board which meets specific requirements. The privacy board or IRB approval must meet specific requirements including, among others, • It involves minimal risk to the subjects, • It will not adversely affect the rights and welfare of the subjects, • Itcould not practically be conducted without the waiver,• It is of sufficient importance so as to outweigh the intrusion of the privacy of an individual • There is an adequate plan to protect the identifiers from improper user and disclosure• There is an adequate plan to destroy the identifiers at the earliest opportunity[Source: Courtesy of William M. Miaoulis, Information Security Officer, UAB Health System, 205.934.6000,
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Institutional Review Board. An IRB exists for each study, and is comprised of healthcare professionals who evaluate all aspects of the trial to ensure that FDA regulations are being met and that participant safey is being protected.
Institutional Review Board (Human Studies Committee)
Institutional Review Board. An independent panel of researchers and community advocates that reviews all parts of a clinical trial and ensures that the study is ethical and poses no undue risks. The IRB must approve the clinical trial's protocol, informed consent document, and advertisements before the trial begins.
Institutional review board. A specially constituted group of people established or designated by a research institution or clinical trial sponsor to protect the welfare of human participants clinical research and ensure trials adhere to federal regulations on the conduct of clinical research.
Institutional Review Board. An IRB exists at each study site, and comprises health care professionals who evaluate all aspects of the trial to ensure that FDA regulations are being met.
Institutional Review Board; an internal committee within the university, set up to review research proposals for their compliance with federal, state, institutional, and any other applicable guidelines for research involving human subjects. See Human Subjects Committee.
Institutional Review Board. An independent committee that reviews clinical studies involving human subjects (participants) and assures the protection of their safety, rights, privacy and welfare.
Institutional Review Board. A committee that reviews research studies to decide whether or not to allow the studies to be done at the hospital, medical center, university or other institution for which the IRB is responsible. An IRB usually includes physicians, scientists, and other health care professionals, as well as someone from the local community. The IRB's role is to help ensure that the study is well designed; that the risks are as low as possible and reasonable compared to the importance of what might be learned; and that the rights of study participants are protected. Special requirements are applied by an IRB when it reviews studies that involve children.
institutional review board. An independent body constituted of medical, scientific, and non-scientific members, whose responsibility it is to ensure the protection of the rights, safety, and well-being of human subjects involved in a trial by, among other things, reviewing, approving, and providing continuing review of trial protocol and of the methods and material to be used in obtaining and documenting informed consent of the trial subjects. (ICH) Other names for such bodies include independent review board, independent ethics committee, committee for the protection of human subjects.
Institutional Review Board. Groups of scientists, doctors, clergy, and consumers at each health care facility or university at which a clinical trial takes place. Designed to protect patients who take part in studies, IRBs review and must approve the protocols for all clinical trials. They check to see that the study is well-designed, does not involve undue Risks, and includes safeguards for Participants.
The Institutional Review Board, or IRB, meets weekly to review research proposals. They must approve all human subjects research at OHSU. Close Window
Institutional Review Board. an independent committee of scientists, physicians, and lay people that oversees clinical trials.
Institutional Review Board (for human subjects research at DU.
Institutional review board. Under the Common Rule, a local review board convened by any institution conducting federally sponsored human subject research, vested with the responsibility to review research proposals to ensure compliance with federal research regulations.
Institutional Review Board. The group who looks at the ethical standards of all research that involves studying people.
Immigration & Refugee Board.
(Institutional Review Board) A committee of physicians, statisticians, community representatives and others that review clinical trial protocols before they can be initiated at a specific institution. IRBs ensure that a trial is ethical and that the rights of participants are adequately protected.
BIDMC Institutional Review Board.
Institutional Review Board (sometimes called Helsinki or Ethics Committee). Commitee designated to review and authorize any biomedical research involving human subjects.
Institutional Review Board. A specially constituted review body established to protect the welfare of human participants in research. Federal law states that all institutions supported by a Department or Agency to which the Common Rule applies must establish an IRB to review and approve research involving human subjects.
Institutional Review Board (see definition below)
Institutional Review Board (at UCB, CPHS for human subjects research, ACUC for animal subjects)
Institutional Review Board. A specially constituted review body established or designated by an entity to protect the welfare of human subjects recruited to participate in biomedical or behavioral research.
Independent Review Board. The three-person board established as part of the 1989 consent decree signed by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and the US Department of Justice as a settlement of the U.S. Government's RICO lawsuit. The IRB has the power to investigate and penalize officers it considers to be corrupt. The IRB has the power to investigate and penalize Teamster officials it considers to be corrupt.
See Independent Review Board.
Institutional Review Board (for human subjects research at UCLA, this is the same as HSPC)
Institutional review board. An IRB is an outside panel of experts that checks and monitors any clinical trial research involving people. This committee represents the interests of the patients who participate in the clinical trial. The committee always includes people who are qualified to evaluate new and ongoing clinical trials on the basis of scientific, legal, and ethical merit. The federal regulations mandated by the Office of Human Research Protection require that an IRB includes at least five people from different backgrounds. Some committee members are doctors and scientists; others are nonmedical people like clergy and teachers. The most important functions of an IRB are to make sure that a clinical trial has scientific merit, minimizes patient risk, and ensures that the privacy of all participants is protected.
Institutional Review Board. A review panel which approves trials prior to initiation to assure conformity with ethical and scientific standards, and that the Informed Consent is adequate. At UCLA, there are 2 such Boards: The Human Subjects Protection Committee (HSPC) and the Institutional Scientific Peer Review Committee (ISPRC), and both must approve a trial prior to the enrollment of participants.
Institutional Review Board. A federally-mandated, provost-appointed committee that provides institutional review for ethical concerns in the use of human subjects in research.
institutional review board. A board designed to oversee the research process in order to protect participant safety. Made up of researchers, ethicists, and lay people from the community, the board must review the trial protocols and the informed consent forms participants sign.
Institutional Review Board. A committee of professionals at an affiliated fair or research institution that reviews research plans and consent forms to evaluate potential physical or psychological risk of research involving human subjects.
Institutional Review Board - Reviews studies with human subjects. The human clinical trial version of an IACUC.
Institutional Review Board. An Institutional Review Board (IRB) is an objective, multidisciplinary group of individuals that reviews and approves or disapproves clinical trials for a medical institution. The Board is made up of doctors from different specialties, ethicists (often a chaplain), administrators, and members of the public. An IRB is required by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to ensure protection of the rights and welfare of patients who are enrolled in clinical trials.
Institutional Review Board. An independent committee of doctors, scientists, clergy, and health care consumers located at the institution where a clinical trial is to take place. The IRB reviews the trial to make sure it is ethical and protects the rights and safety of study participants. IRBs approve and monitor almost all clinical trials in the United States.
Institutional Review Board. A group of health care professionals as well as laypersons from the community where the clinical trial takes place. The Board is responsible for seeing that there is no unreasonable risk to the patient and that the informed consent form accurately informs the participant about his/her role in the study, along with the potential risks and benefits associated with one's participation.
Institutional Review Board. An IRB can be used to review and approve a researcher's request to waive or alter the Privacy Rule's requirements for an Authorization. The Privacy Rule does not alter the membership, functions and operations, and review and approval procedures of an IRB regarding the protection of human subjects established by other Federal requirements.
Institutional Review Board, a committee responsible for ensuring the protection of human participants in research at an institution.
Institutional Review Board. A committee that screens proposals for research using human participants for adherence to ethical standards.
INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW BOARD. See Research Ethics Board.
Institutional Review Board. A group of doctors, scientists, lawyers, community members, and patient advocates appointed by a medical institution who are responsible for reviewing and approving research studies that involve humans. IRBs assure that such studies are scientifically and ethically proper to conduct.
Institutional Review Board. A group of scientists, doctors, clergy, and consumers that reviews and approves the action plan for every clinical trial. There is an IRB at every health care facility that does clinical research. IRBs are designed to protect the people who take part in a clinical trial. IRBs check to see that the trial is well designed, legal, ethical, does not involve unneccesary risks, and includes safeguards for patients.