The case: a full irb committee meeting is convened on october 18, 2009. one agenda item is a new research proposal to evaluate how mothers interact with their learning disabled child. the inclusion criteria require the children to be a minimum of five years of age. the protocol requires the mother of the child to look at the child without any expression and not to talk to the child for three minutes. the irb determined that the risks in the research would be greater than minimal.

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24 October, 18:38

The case: a full irb committee meeting is convened on october 18, 2009. one agenda item is a new research proposal to evaluate how mothers interact with their learning disabled child. the inclusion criteria require the children to be a minimum of five years of age. the protocol requires the mother of the child to look at the child without any expression and not to talk to the child for three minutes. the irb determined that the risks in the research would be greater than minimal.

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Judah Schultz · Answer 1

Defer the proposal to the next meeting because of a loss of quorum

Loss of quorum refers to a situation when there is not enough members of essential body that needed to conduct the meeting.

In most cases, loss of quorum happens either because of unfulfilled invitations or walk outs.