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How is the safety of volunteers protected?

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How is the safety of volunteers protected?

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A. The ethical and legal codes that apply to general medical practice also apply to clinical trials. Most clinical research is regulated by the government, which requires built-in safeguards to protect volunteers. Trials follow carefully controlled protocol, or sets of rules (study plans), which detail what researchers will do in each study. Results of clinical trials are reported by researchers at meetings, in medical journals, and to government agencies. People who take part in the study are not mentioned by name in these reports. Most types of clinical trials in the U.S. and Canada must be approved and monitored by an Institutional Review Board (IRB) to make sure the trial is safe. An IRB is an independent committee of physicians, scientists, mathematicians, community advocates, and others that assure the trial will produce the benefits relative to the risks and that the rights of volunteers are protected. All institutions that conduct or support biomedical research involving humans

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