VCU Human Research Protection Program (HRPP) Blog

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We just uploaded revised consent templates to the IRB forms page. (http://www.research.vcu.edu/forms/)
The following are the changes:
1. We created a verbal telephone screening template and a verbal HIPAA authorization template.
2. For the regular consent/assent templates, the the witness signature line was removed. This change was made because a witness signature is actually only required by Virginia code, and the VCU IRB follows the federal regulations for research subjects protection, which supersede the Virginia code.
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