The Nuts and Bolts of IRBs
Abstract
Two different but useful guidebooks—Working With and Within IRBs: A Practical Guide for Investigators, Sponsors, and IRB Members, by Eileen Hilton and Deirdre Hall, and Institutional Review Board: Management and Function, 2nd ed., by Elizabeth A. Bankert and Robert J. Amdur—provide investigators, institutional review board members, and research sponsors with valuable information about how IRBs carry out their functions in reviewing research protocols and overseeing research with humans. The second book, however, is much more comprehensive than the first