Institution Review Boards (IRB)

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Institution Review Boards (IRB) involves individuals in the group whose responsibility is to assess or supervision of structured research work aimed at getting information whose subjects relate to humans. In this, Human subjects mean the people or persons used by the researcher to obtain the research information which mainly involves one on one interaction. The main role of IRBs is to ensure that the risks likely to be encountered by human participants in a research are minimal. An IRB committee can ask a researcher to review and revise his study design if it establishes that the research poses more risk that it is required. Additionally, the IRB may refuse to approve a research if they deem it unethical, careless or harmful to participants (Lincoln & …show more content…

Although a researcher is supposed to request the level of review that he considers appropriate for his study, the chair of IRB committee in consultation with other committee members where necessary establish the correct level of review for the researcher based on the level of risk posed by the research (Edgar & Rothman, 2015).
Exempt level of review
An institution such as a non-profit organization may apply an exempt level of review in its research which means that the review is conducted by one member of the IRB committee, sometimes in consultations with other members. An IRB may declare a research as exempt if it considers the study to pose low-risk and the only involvement of human participants is in some of the categories outlined below:
• If the study by the organization is ran under normally accepted scholastic settings involving elementary educational settings.
• The inquiry is handled using examinations which present no hazard such as conferences and investigations.
• If the establishment is performing study concerning civil servants or other public officials.
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