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The
purpose of the Institutional Review Board is to ensure that
the rights and welfare of human subjects are protected while participating
in research. In accordance with federal and state regulations, the
IRB must review and approve research involving human subjects, both
in advance and by periodic review, to promote fully informed and
voluntary participation and to make certain the research does not
expose human subjects to unreasonable or unnecessary risk.
In
its deliberations, the IRB will use the ethical principles of "beneficence,
respect for persons, and justice," detailed in
the Belmont Report (1979) to make its determination. With representation
from a wide range of scientific disciplines and
from outside the academic community, the IRB gives rapid but individualized
attention to the numerous and diverse research projects at Cambridge
Health Alliance.
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