Timeline for Is it possible to get IRB approval after the fact?
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| Oct 18, 2018 at 7:10 | comment | added | Mast | @thosphor Honestly, the question has a lousy fitting title. A better fitting title would've been "We forgot something important, how screwed are we? Can it still be fixed?". This answer answers the first part while indicating you can forget about the second. | |
| Oct 18, 2018 at 4:04 | comment | added | Fomite | @user71659 Note that even that is an institution-created decision tree, and fairly narrow. | |
| Oct 18, 2018 at 3:28 | comment | added | user71659 | @Fomite Not anymore. Announced 2018, and phasing in by early 2019, the rules were changed by HHS so that PIs can self determine for certain exemptions. You can see the implementation across multiple institutions (U-M, UCI) | |
| Oct 17, 2018 at 22:57 | comment | added | Fomite | @user71659 I would note at many institutions (including every one I have ever been at), making that determination is the IRB's prerogative, not the researcher's. | |
| Oct 17, 2018 at 17:49 | comment | added | user71659 | Your example about the young doctor is actually a borderline case, at least in the US. If the existing information collected is public or not personally identifiable, i.e. the records were anonymized, then no IRB approval is necessary. (45 CFR 46.101(b)(4)) | |
| Oct 17, 2018 at 16:21 | comment | added | David Richerby | @thosphor First, the question in the title is just intended as a summary. We should be answering the question, not the title. Second, the second paragraph is quite clear that IRB approval cannot be granted after the research has been done, according to the regulations of the multiple institutions that St. Inkbug has worked on IRBs for. How is that not an answer to the title question? | |
| Oct 17, 2018 at 15:48 | comment | added | thosphor | I'm struggling to see how this answers the question in the title. | |
| Oct 17, 2018 at 13:08 | comment | added | StrongBad | This is a great answer, but it leaves out non-research human usage which can lead to data that are used in retrospective studies, which is like getting approval for research that has already been conducted. | |
| Oct 17, 2018 at 4:48 | history | answered | user96258 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |