Humanities

Research Ethics Committees

Hospital or other institutional committees established to protect the welfare of research subjects. Federal regulations (the Common Rule (45 CFR 46)) mandate the use of these committees to monitor federally-funded biomedical and behavioral research involving human subjects.

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Hospital or other institutional committees established to protect the welfare of research subjects. Federal regulations (the Common Rule (45 CFR 46)) mandate the use of these committees to monitor federally-funded biomedical and behavioral research involving human subjects.

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13 entry terms
  • Board, Institutional Review
  • Boards, Institutional Review
  • Ethics Committee, Research
  • Ethics Committees, Research
  • IRB
  • IRBs
  • Institutional Review Board
  • Institutional Review Boards
  • Research Ethics Committee
  • Review Board, Institutional
  • Review Boards, Institutional
  • Committee, Research Ethics
  • Committees, Research Ethics

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9 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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coord with geographic term

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History Note

2002; for INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW BOARD use PROFESSIONAL STAFF COMMITTEES 1982-2001

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  • Ethics Committees (1979-2001)
  • Professional Staff Committees (1981-2001)

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Research Ethics Committees. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D028744. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D028744
  2. Research Ethics Committees. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_review_board
  3. Research Ethics Committees. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q362104