<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><xml><records><record><source-app name="HighWire" version="7.x">Drupal-HighWire</source-app><ref-type name="Journal Article">17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Hamilton, Michelle D.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cola, Philip A.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Terchek, Joshua J.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Werner, James J.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Stange, Kurt C.</style></author></authors><secondary-authors></secondary-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">A Novel Protocol for Streamlined IRB Review of Practice-based Research Network (PBRN) Card Studies</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The Journal of the American Board of Family
                Medicine</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2011</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2011-09-01 00:00:00</style></date></pub-dates></dates><pages><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">605-609</style></pages><doi><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">10.3122/jabfm.2011.05.110034</style></doi><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">24</style></volume><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">5</style></issue><abstract><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Purpose: The “card study,” in which clinicians record brief information about patient visits during usual clinical care, has long been a rapid method for conducting descriptive studies in practice-based research networks. Because an increasingly stringent regulatory environment has made conducting card studies difficult, we developed a streamlined method for obtaining card study institutional review board (IRB) approval. Methods: We developed a protocol for a study of the card study method, allowing new card study proposals of specific research questions to be submitted as addenda to the approved Card Study Protocol. Results: Seven card studies were proposed and approved under the Card Study Protocol during the first year after implementation, contrasted with one-card study proposed in the previous year. New card study ideas submitted as addenda to an approved protocol appeared to increase IRB comfort with the card study as a minimal risk method while reducing the hurdles to developing new study ideas. Conclusions: A Card Study Protocol allowing new study questions to be submitted as addenda decreases time between idea generation and IRB approval. Shortened turn-around times may be useful for translating ideas into action while reducing regulatory burden.</style></abstract></record></records></xml>