Institutional Review Board (IRB)/Independent Ethics Committee (IEC)

Glossary Term:

Institutional Review Board (IRB)/Independent Ethics Committee (IEC)

Definition

An independent body constituted of medical, scientific, and nonscientific members whose responsibility it is to ensure the protection of the rights, safety, and well-being of human subjects involved in a trial by, among other things, reviewing, approving, and providing continuing review of trials, protocols and amendments, and of the methods and material to be used to obtaining and documenting informed consent of the trial participant.