Taylor & Francis (Routledge), The American Journal of Bioethics, 5(14), p. 3-8
DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2014.892168
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This paper presents a review of the literature, summarizes current initiatives, and provides a heuristic for assessing the effectiveness of a range of IRB collaborative strategies that can reduce the regulatory burden of ethics review while ensuring protection of human subjects, with a particular focus on international research. Broad adoption of IRB collaborative strategies will reduce regulatory burdens posed by overlapping oversight mechanisms and has the potential to enhance human subjects protections.