The ethics of research with The ethics of research with children
The ethics of research with The ethics of research with children
The ethics of research with The ethics of research with children
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IRB practice<br />
• IRB study asking about assent.<br />
• Approximately half <strong>of</strong> IRB chairs in study sample<br />
required investigators to use a particular method.<br />
– Of these, 80% used an age cut-<strong>of</strong>f (majority used age 7).<br />
• <strong>The</strong> remainder <strong>of</strong> IRBs left it up to the investigators.<br />
A. Whittle, S. Shah, B. Wilfond, G. Gensler, D. Wendler, Institutional Review Board Practices Regarding Assent in Pediatric Rese<br />
esearch, 113 Pediatrics 1747<br />
(2004).
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