What Principles Guide the IRB?
The Institutional Review Board (IRB) of the University of
Southern Maine (USM) serves as the primary institutional body
to protect the rights and welfare of individuals recruited
to participate in research conducted at USM or affiliates
of USM. The IRB is a Federally mandated board (45 CFR part
46, the "Common Rule". 1991) that prospectively
reviews and approves research that involves human beings as
research subjects. Each research study that proposes interactions
with human subjects must be prospectively reviewed and approved
by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) or exempted from IRB
review by the administration prior to the onset of data collection.
All human subjects research, even if found exempt from IRB
review, must follow the USM policies for the protection of
human research subjects.
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