Using central IRBs for multicenter clinical trials in the United States.

Research institutions differ in their willingness to defer to a single, central institutional review board (IRB) for multicenter clinical trials, despite statements from the FDA, OHRP, and NIH in support of using central IRBs to improve the efficiency of conducting trials. The Clinical Trials Transf...

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Main Authors: Kathryn E Flynn, Cynthia L Hahn, Judith M Kramer, Devon K Check, Carrie B Dombeck, Soo Bang, Jane Perlmutter, Felix A Khin-Maung-Gyi, Kevin P Weinfurt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3559741?pdf=render