Fostering IRB collaboration for review of international research.
This article presents a review of the literature, summarizes current initiatives, and provides a heuristic for assessing the effectiveness of a range of institutional review board (IRB) collaborative strategies that can reduce the regulatory burden of ethics review while ensuring protection of human subjects, with a particular focus on international research. Broad adoption of IRB collaborative strategies will reduce regulatory burdens posed by overlapping oversight mechanisms and has the potential to enhance human subjects protections.
a Rutgers University.
Francis
F
Barchi
Megan
M
Kasimatis Singleton
Jon F
JF
Merz
D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000941:ethics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D028744:Ethics Committees, Research; D006805:Human Experimentation / Q000941:ethics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D006801:Humans; D007391:International Cooperation
Institutional review board; international research; multinational research; research ethics board; research partnership