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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 behavioural 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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- Part of Speech: noun
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- Industry/Domain: Pharmaceutical
- Category: Clinical trials
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- Institutional Review Board
- comité d'éthique indépendant (CEI)
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- Junta de Revisión Institucional
- Institutional Review Board (organismi indipendente il cui compito è assicurare la salvaguardia dei diritti e della salute dei partecipanti ad uno studio clinico)
- 机构审查委员会
- 施設内治験審査委員会
- Kelembagaan Review Board
- Comitê de revisão institucional
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