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institutional review board
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institutional review board (IRB),
an organizational committee that reviews and approves biomedical research that uses humans as subjects.

institutional review board
Medical ethics A review body of physicians and lay persons established or designated by an entity–eg, a university hospital or academic health care facility, to protect the safety and welfare of human subjects participating in biomedical or behavioral research; the IRB debates and approves or rejects research projects performed at the institution. See Ethics committee, Helsinki Declaration, Nuremburg code.


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Before approving this study, the Institutional Ethics Committee of Monash University went further by seeking outside scientific advice and requiring an independent expert clinician be available to counsel volunteers.
In the wake of the Cartwright Commission, institutional ethics committees in New Zealand operate as risk managers, both for themselves and for the researchers who investigate under their masthead (Casey 2001:131).
Nurses should not participate in any research or experimental treatment on human subjects, which has not been approved by an institutional ethics committee, and which is not conducted in a manner consistent with the requirements of the National Health and Medical Research Council's national statements relating to ethical conduct in research involving humans.
 
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