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HRPP Investigator Guidance Series

This page serves as a hub for all of the Investigator Guidance Series documents. Each document is an abbreviated version of one of our HRPP Policies intended for investigators, coordinators, and other study team members. This page is a good starting point for any study team member with a question about a policy on a specific topic. A link to the full policy is included in each document.

Policy Topic HRPP Policy Number
Advertisements 3.5
Change Requests2.4
cIRB1.4
Closure of Research2.9
Collection, Storage, and Use of HBM in Research7.2
Compensation3.8
Confidentiality3.3
Continuing Review2.7
Data and Safety Monitoring3.2
Data Registries7.3
Emergency Research - Waiving Consent5.6
Emergency Use of a Test Article6.4
Employees as Subjects4.7
Ethical Access3.12
Exempt Research2.6
Expanded Access to Investigational Drugs and Devices6.5
Expedited Review2.3
Financial COIs1.25
Full Board Review2.2
Humanitarian Use Devices (HUD)6.3
Incidental Findings3.15
Informed Consent5.1
International Research1.5
IRB Approval Criteria2.5
Investigational and Marketed Devices6.2
Investigational and Marketed Drugs6.1
Obtaining Informed Consent for Non-English Speaking Persons5.7
Obtaining Informed Consent for Persons with Additional Needs5.7
PI qualifications and responsibilities1.26
Placebos3.13
Post-Approval Monitoring of Research1.21
Pregnancy Testing3.10
Privacy3.3
Recruitment3.6
Reimbursement3.8
Remote Consent5.3
Research Involving Children4.4
Research Involving Decisionally Impaired Persons4.6
Research Involving Neonates4.2
Research Involving Pregnant Women and Fetuses4.2
Research Involving Prisoners4.3
Research Personnel Qualifications and Responsibilities1.27
Retention of Research Records1.17
Short Form Consent5.5
sIRB1.3
Students as Subjects4.7
Study Holds, Suspension, and Termination8.6
Using PHI in research3.4
Vulnerable Populations - Additional Protections4.1
Waiving Consent Process5.2
Waiving Signed Consent5.4
Wash-Out3.13
What requires IRB review and approval1.8

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