RAND Institutional Review Board Survey (NIH IRB Survey)
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) sponsored the RAND Corporation, in cooperation with the Scripps Translational Sciences Institute, to conduct a survey of IRBs.
Survey Research Methodology
Survey Research Methodology
Surveys—from in-person to web-based, and discrete choice to stated preference—are an important means of collecting sociological, statistical, and demographic data. RAND has pioneered the use of surveys in several fields, including the development of the Delphi method of opinion gathering, and examined the statistical accuracy of various survey formats and web-based surveys.