During an Institutional Review Board (IRB) meeting, any IRB member who may have a potential COI with a study under review should:

A. Disclose their potential COI and not participate in any action

B. Disclose their potential COI, but not answer any questions about the study

C. Disclose their potential COI and may answer questions, but recuse themselves from voting

D. Leave the meeting immediately

Correct answer is "C".

The idea of COI is to show how to identify, evaluate and manage the members of COI from the IRB as it can effect the analysis of the research.

One of the actions followed by the IRB is that any IRB participant with a COI in a study under the analysis designed by the IRB have to inform the COI to the IRB director. He needs to leave the room during the debates and the correspondent vote, except if he is giving any information to the IRB in charge.