Guidance
This page contains the current guidance information needed for successfully applying for IRB approval of human research projects. Each guidance includes, definitions, references to the appropriate federal, state, or institutional policy and procedures, and suggestions for completion of the appropriate portion of the IRBNet application form. These guidances should help you fill out the appropriate part of the application, narratives, forms, and appendices that are embedded in the IRBNet application process (see IRBNet instructions). If you have any questions about any specific guidance, please contact us at IRB@nau.edu.
Guidance documents
- Administrative Closures
- Amending Approved Research (revised 01-2019)
- Arizona state law
- Case Reports
- Certificates of Confidentiality (revised 07-2018)
- Children
- Classroom Research and Independent Projects
- Clinical Trials (revised 01-2019)
- Compensation of Subjects (Revised 01-2019)
- Concluding Human Research
- Data Security (New 01-2019)
- Enrollment and Accrual of Study Participants
- Human Subject Revisions (New 07-2018)
- Investigator Responsibility after IRB Approval (Revised 01-2019)
- Limited IRB Review (New 01-2019)
- Minimal Risk or Exempt Research (revised 07-2018)
- Newborn Blood Spots
- NIH Genomic Data Sharing
- Not-for-Cause Reviews
- Oral History
- Pregnant Women
- Prisoners
- Quality Improvement and Program Evaluation
- Recruitment and Advertisements
- Renewal of Human Research (revised 07-2018)
- Reporting Local Event Information
- Repositories and Broad Consent (New 01-2019)
- Requirements for Obtaining Informed Consent
- Requirements for other Agencies
- Scientific-Scholarly review
- Single IRB Review (revised 07-2018, previously “Ceded IRB Review”)
- Storing Research Information for Future Use
- Student Guidance and FA Responsibilities (New 10-2020)
- Training Requirements
- What is human research (New 07-2018)