The cost of operating Institutional Review Boards (IRBs)

Academic Medicine

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 638-644

  Wagner, Todd H ^a,b,g   Bhandari, Aman ^c,d   Chadwick, Gary L ^e   Nelson, Daniel K ^f  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Health Economics Resource Center   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g VA PALO ALTO HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ETHICS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RESEARCH; SOCIOECONOMICS; STANDARDIZATION; TRAINING;

EID: 0037503999     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001888-200306000-00019     Document Type: Article

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