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LINKS TO ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Links to Additional Information on Institutional Review Boards

The Belmont Report: a seminal document that guides human subject regulations in the United States:
DHHS Office for Human Research Protections
IRB Guidebook (NIH)
President's Council on Bioethics
IRB regulations (Code of Federal Regulations)

Definition of items exempt from review
Definitions of items eligible for "expedited review" (i.e. studies involving low risk and unlikely to require a meeting of the IRB to approve)

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