IRB adventures

Every year, we have to have all of the informed consent forms, etc., for our ongoing studies reviewed again. I turned in the eight or so existing consent forms for my study with the continuing review form, and then later I turned in the new consent form for the next stage in my study. We'll call that C. So for the last several days, our IRB administrator has been e-mailing me back and forth about two consent forms for the continuing review that the new chair wanted to make minor edits to. We'll call them A and B. Unfortunately, the administrator is having a hard time telling B and C apart.

( And then we get e-mail exchanges like this. )

This used to be an overnight process, for minimal risk studies like mine. Bleh.