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MHLW Panel Weighs Single IRB, DCT Metrics in Core Hospital Overhaul
A Japanese health ministry panel on June 10 discussed new accreditation criteria for the country’s core clinical research hospitals, with measures to promote single institutional review boards (IRBs) and decentralized clinical trials (DCTs) proposed as new metrics. Core clinical research…
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