As a Member of the IRB You Have Received a Research

question 35

Multiple Choice

As a member of the IRB you have received a research study to review and report on at the next IRB meeting. In reviewing and considering all aspects of the study you focus on the aspect of how the benefits of the study should be distributed. Should the research participants benefit most and should the research participants in the control group benefit as much as those in the experimental group. Such deliberations involve the moral principle of

• A) nonmalefience.
• B) beneficence.
• C) justice.
• D) integrity.

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