Include the following on your IRB application for your DHS research request. If you are filing an amendment to an existing IRB application, use this as a guide.
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2. In Section 6.a.1 check the specific DHS facilities that are applicable to your research study. This checkbox triggers the DHS research Oversight Board (ROB) research categorization process. To learn more about this process, click here.
3. In Section 6a.4, select “Yes” to indicate that this research will potentially benefit DHS patients in the future.
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8. Indicate if you intend to contact DHS patients using the information provided by the Informatics and Analytics core for study recruitment purposes.
In your study protocol in Section 135.32, in your own words, generally state you will be working with the DHS Informatics and Analytics to extract the data variables listed in sections 13.2 & 13.3 which will be sourced from the DHS Data Warehouse or DHS i2b2.
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