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What does IRB stand for?

Institutional Review Board


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Inspection Requirements Branch (US Navy)
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Institute for Research in Biomedicine
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Intelligence Review Board
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Internal Revenue Bulletin (Internal Revenue Service)
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Samples in periodicals archive:
OTCBB: ADXS), the live, attenuated Listeria monocytogenes (Lm) biotechnology company, has received approval from the New England Institutional Review Board (IRB) to enroll the first patient in a Phase II clinical trial of cervical dysplasia (cervical intraepithelial neoplasia or CIN).
Coast IRB and others in its industry provide institutional review boards for tests of treaments on humans.
Coast IRB and others in its industry provide institutional review boards for tests of treaments on humans.
Jobson Medical Information (New York), a healthcare information and marketing services provider and an affiliate of The Wicks Group of Companies, has acquired the assets of CenterWatch (Boston, MA) and The New England Institutional Review Board (NEIRB; Wellesley, MA) from Thomson Healthcare (Montvale, NJ), a subsidiary of Thomson Corp.
Stanislaus Surgical Hospital Institutional Review Board, Modesto, CA, was the recipient of a six-item 483 for failing to keep accurate minutes for informed consent, and did not keep correspondence directly through the IRB and principal investigator in a medical device study, according to FDA records.
law that provides patients with access to their medical records and more control over how their personal health information is used and disclosed Institutional review board (IRB): a group of scientists, doctors, clergy, and consumers at each facility that participates in a clinical trial.
Taylor said that the treatment was essentially a medical experiment and that a hospital institutional review board should have been consulted beforehand.
The agency has issued a new draft guidance for therapeutic companies working in the field of emergency medicine, institutional review boards and clinical investigators.

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