Institutional Review Board

Designed to give Institutional Review Board (IRB) members the information they need to protect the rights and welfare of research subjects in a way that is both effective and efficient, the chapters of the Institutional Review Board Member Handbook are short and to the point. Topic-specific chapters list the criteria IRB members should use to determine how to vote on specific kinds of studies and offer practical advice on what IRB members should do before and during full-committee meetings. This handbook is an excellent accompaniment to Institutional Review Board: Management and Function, Third Edition (ISBN: 978-1-284-18115-9) and the Study Guide that IRB members can access and refer to quickly and easily. The book has three sections: -Part 1: Background Information, containing background information on human subject research -Part 2: The Full Committee IRB Meeting, comprised of eight chapters focused on the research proposal review process -Part 3: Specific Topics, which focuses on areas of interest to IRB members, like advertising for research, conflict of interest, qualitative methods, informed consent, research involving children and prisons, and deception of research subjects