If you’ve been assigned an audit to review for an upcoming meeting, and have some questions about the audit report, please keep in mind that you are welcome to contact Office of Research Compliance (ORC) staff before the meeting for more information. The auditors involved in each audit are listed on the front page of the audit report, and they are all in the UAMS email system. You can email them directly, or, if you don’t regularly use the UAMS email system, you can send your question to someone in the IRB office, who will forward it to the ORC office for a response. Sometimes getting in touch with the auditors before the meeting can help speed our review of an audit report or avoid a contingency.
Also, if you have questions about the audit response, you can get in touch directly with the study team before the meeting, if you’d like (just like you can for any other type of review you’ve been assigned). In these cases, you may wish to maintain reviewer anonymity. If so, here again, you can send questions to the IRB office staff to be forwarded to the study team.