{"id":60,"date":"2019-12-17T21:04:49","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T21:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/institutional-review-board\/?page_id=60"},"modified":"2020-01-15T15:44:03","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T15:44:03","slug":"modification-request-protocols","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/institutional-review-board\/information-for-researchers\/modification-request-protocols\/","title":{"rendered":"Modification Request Protocols"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When any revisions to an approved research protocol, written consent form and\/or advertisement for participant recruitment is desired, the investigator must submit in writing to the FUIRB a modification request and a new Form A.  The modification request must be on department letterhead and include a description of the original study in enough detail to allow FUIRB to evaluate the requested change(s) and should explain the changes and the rationale for change(s). A brief summary of findings from the study should be included in the request.  A revised copy of the pertinent documents (e.g. consent form and\/or advertisement) must also be submitted with the change(s) italicized or underlines.  <\/p>\n<p>Modifications to approved protocols may not be initiated until FUIRB approval has been obtained, except where necessary to eliminate apparent immediate hazards to the subjects.<\/p>\n<p>An expedited process may review minor revisions, which reflect administrative changes or do not increase the risk of the participants.  An example of minor modifications would be a change in the title of the research project.  Those modifications, which are not deemed as minor, will require full-board review.  <\/p>\n<p>A letter sent to the investigator and recorded in the FUIRB files may acknowledge non-substantive (administrative) changes to approved protocols.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When any revisions to an approved research protocol, written consent form and\/or advertisement for participant recruitment is desired, the investigator must submit in writing to the FUIRB a modification request and a new Form A. The modification request must be on department letterhead and include a description of the original study in enough detail to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":32,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-60","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/institutional-review-board\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/institutional-review-board\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/institutional-review-board\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/institutional-review-board\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/institutional-review-board\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/institutional-review-board\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/60\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/institutional-review-board\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/institutional-review-board\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}