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Measuring the Quality and Performance of Institutional Review Boards
11 McGuire Research Institute, Richmond, VA, USA.
Abstract:
Despite the importance of institutional review boards (IRBs) in protecting human subjects participating in research and the well-known benefits of performance measurements, there has been no systematic assessment of the quality and performance of IRBs. The IRB community has frequently cited the lack of credible metrics for measuring human subject protections and the quality of IRB ethics reviews as reasons for not measuring the quality and performance of IRBs. However, the IRB, with its well-defined missions, functions, structure, and procedures, should be readily amendable to performance measurements. In this brief commentary, I analyzed potential barriers for measuring the quality of IRBs and proposed ways to overcome these barriers.
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