title: Rethinking local Institutional Review Board (IRB) review at state health departments: implications for a consolidated, independent public health IRB.
abstract: A number of unique problems plague human research protection efforts at United States (U.S.) State and Territorial Departments of Health (DOHs) problems which might be ameliorated through a consolidated national or regional, independent, not-for-profit Institutional Review Board (IRB).
authors.affiliation: Mayes College of Healthcare Business and Policy, Department of Health Policy and Public Health, USA.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Perlman
mesh_terms: D016265:Conflict of Interest; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D028744:Ethics Committees, Research / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000458:organization & administration*; D019983:Guideline Adherence; D006805:Human Experimentation / Q000941:ethics* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D011057:Politics; D015980:Public Health Practice / Q000941:ethics* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D014481:United States