Statistical Sciences 1024A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Informed Consent, Institutional Review Board

• School: Western University
• Department: Statistical Sciences
• Course: Statistical Sciences 1024A/B
• Professor: Sohail Khan

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Institutional review board board that looks at all planned studies & is charged with protecting the safety and well-being of the subjects. Informed consent subjects must be informed in advance about the nature of a study and any risk it may bring: so(cid:373)eti(cid:373)es you (cid:373)ust get the su(cid:271)je(cid:272)t"s (cid:272)o(cid:374)se(cid:374)t i(cid:374) writi(cid:374)g. Confidential data agreements between investigator and participant about how data will be managed and used. Anonymity subjects are anonymous and their names are not known even to the director of the study. Any breach of this is a breach of ethics. Clinical trials experiments that study the effectiveness of medical treatments on actual patients: best done with randomized comparative experiments.