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Hospital or other institutional committees established to protect the welfare of research subjects. Federal regulations (the Common Rule (45 CFR 46)) mandate the use of these committees to monitor federally-funded biomedical and behavioral research involving human subjects.
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- Board, Institutional Review
- Boards, Institutional Review
- Ethics Committee, Research
- Ethics Committees, Research
- IRB
- IRBs
- Institutional Review Board
- Institutional Review Boards
- Research Ethics Committee
- Review Board, Institutional
- Review Boards, Institutional
- Committee, Research Ethics
- Committees, Research Ethics
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Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.
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2002; for INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW BOARD use PROFESSIONAL STAFF COMMITTEES 1982-2001
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- Ethics Committees (1979-2001)
- Professional Staff Committees (1981-2001)
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- National Library of Medicine. Research Ethics Committees. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D028744. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D028744
- Research Ethics Committees. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_review_board
- Research Ethics Committees. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q362104