Profile of Institutional Review Board Characteristics Prior to the 2019 Implementation of the Revised Common Rule

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berry, Sandra H.

Contributor:

Bromley, Elizabeth

Grant, David

Karimi, Gina

Khodyakov, Dmitry

Levitan, Barbara

Liu, Karin

Mendoza-Graf, Alexandra

Newberry, Sydne

Language:

English

Place of Publication:

Santa Monica, Calif. RAND Corporation 2019

Summary:

The United States adopted the Common Rule in the 1970s to protect human subjects in research, and research organizations created institutional research boards (IRBs) to ensure the protection of human research participants. A set of proposed changes to the Common Rule was first proposed in 2011 and eventually adopted in 2019. To assess possible changes in attitudes about IRBs as the Revised Common Rule takes effect, a baseline is needed. This report details the results of surveys of IRB chairs, administrators, and members, as well as principal investigators, to obtain baseline information on their demographics and their attitudes about their IRB's efficacy and efficiency and the likely effects of proposed changes in the Revised Common Rule. Where possible, the authors also compare the survey results with the 1998 Bell Report, which used a similar survey to evaluate IRBs' perspectives on the protection of human subjects.