Glossary of Terms and Acronyms
- capacity to consent / decision making capacity
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The Human Subjects Division (HSD) defines this as the ability of an individual to understand the choices presented, to appreciate the implications of choosing one alternative…
- Central IRB
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See: Single IRB
- child
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Person who has not attained the legal age (as defined by a state or country) for consent to the treatment or procedures involved in the research….
- clinical trial
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A research study that prospectively assigns one or more human subjects to one or more interventions (which may include placebo or other control) to evaluate the…
- ClinicalTrial.gov (CT.gov)
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This is a web-based registry and results database for clinical studies. It is maintained by the federal government to provide patients, their family members, health care…
- closure, study
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For more information about closing IRB applications See: Close your IRB Application
- Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)
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This is the name for the rules and regulations published in the Federal Register by the executive departments and agencies of the federal government. The CFR…
- coded
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Data set in which direct subject identifiers have been replaced with a study code. The link between the study code and direct subject identifiers are kept…
- coercion
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In human subjects research, coercion occurs when an overt or implicit threat of harm (such as loss of services or access to programs to which the…
- collaborative research
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Research that engages more than one institution and for which there is a division of labor among the institutions (i.e., the institutions are not all conducting…