Human Subjects Research Review Statistics
At the close of the FY 2009-2010 there were 1,802 active research protocols involving human subjects being conducted at The University of Texas at Austin. The respective proportions for each of the protocol review classifications are:
Active IRB Protocols for FY 2009-2010
The number of research projects involving human subjects processed by the Office of Research Support (ORS) and the Institutional Review Board (IRB) gradually increases annually. The following table illustrates this increase.
| 2007-2008* | 2008-2009* | 2009-2010* | |
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*Fiscal year always begins September 1 and ends August 31. |
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| Exempt | 544 | 692 | 817 |
| Expedited | 711 | 755 | 904 |
| Full Board | 129 | 108 | 81 |
| Total | 1,384 | 1,555 | 1,802 |
The National Research Network 2010 Benchmark Report (NRN) documents performance data from more than 50 randomly selected hospitals, universities and government agencies across the National Research Network (NRN). This information is provided as a service to the human subject research community to assist organizations as they benchmark internal performance. Similarly, the Association for Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs (AAHRPP) collects and documents performance data of close to 200 organizations that process human subject research in order to demonstrate the average amount of time to process submissions. Illustrated in the graphs below are comparisons of these averages with the Office of Research Support's averages for FY 2009-2010. This first graph demonstrates a comparison of the average number of days to initially correspond with the investigator for expedited submissions.
IRB Submission Comparison
Average Number of Days from Submission to Initial Review
This following graph demonstrates a comparison of the average number of days from submission to final approval across all protocol review classifications.
