A
- AAHRPP: Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs
- ACH: Arkansas Children’s Hospital
- ACRI: Arkansas Children’s Research Institute
- ACNC: Arkansas Children’s Nutrition Center
- AE: adverse event
C
- CCR: Committee on Clinical Research
- CCTO: Cancer Clinical Trials Office
- CFR: Code of Federal Regulations
- CIRB: Central Institutional Review Board (National Cancer Institute)
- CITI: Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative
- CLARA: Clinical Research Administration system
- COG: Children’s Oncology Group
- COI: conflict of interest
- CR: continuing review
D
- DCFS: Division of Children and Family Services (Arkansas Department of Human Services)
- DLAM: Division of Laboratory Animal Medicine
- DOJ: Department of Justice
- DSM: Data and Safety Monitor; data and safety monitoring
- DSMB: Data and Safety Monitoring Board
- DSMC: Data and Safety Monitoring Committee
- DSMP: Data and Safety Monitoring Plan
- DUA: data use agreement
E
- ePHI: Electronic Protected Health Information
- EUA: emergency use authorization (of a drug or biologic)
F
- FERPA: Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act
- FWA: Federalwide Assurance
G
- GOG: Gynecologic Oncology Group
H
- HDE: Humanitarian Device Exemption
- HIPAA: Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
- HITECH: Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act
- HRPP: Human Research Protection Program
- HUD: Humanitarian Use Device
I
- IACUC: Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee
- ICF: Informed Consent Form
- ICP: Informed Consent Process
- ICMJE: International Committee of Medical Journal Editors
- IDE: Investigational Device Exemption
- IND: Investigational New Drug
- IRB: Institutional Review Board
L
- LAR: legally authorized representative (in a consent form)
- LDS: limited data set
M
- MIRT: Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy
N
- NCT: National Clinical Trials (number) — a unique identifier given to a clinical study on ClinicalTrials.gov (National Institutes of Health)
- NDA: non-disclosure agreement
- NICE: New Investigation Consult and Education (Office of Research Compliance review of investigator-initiated studies following Institutional Review Board approval)
- NSR: Non-significant Risk
O
- OHRP: Office for Human Research Protections (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
- ORC: Office of Research Compliance
- ORI: Office of Research Integrity (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
- ORSP: Office of Research and Sponsored Programs
P
- PCRU: Pediatric Clinical Research Unit (Arkansas Children’s)
- PHI: Protected Health Information
- PI: principal investigator
- POG: Pediatric Oncology Group
- PPRU: Pediatric Pharmacology Research Unit (Arkansas Children’s)
- PRI: UAMS Psychiatric Research Institute
- PRIM&R: Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research
- PRMC: Protocol Review and Monitoring Committee
R
- RCR: responsible conduct of research (Office of Research Integrity)
- ReSIN: Research Support Information Network
- RPR: review preparatory to research (under the HIPAA Privacy Rule)
- RSC: Research Support Center (a.k.a. Office of Research Support)
S
- SOP: Standard Operating Procedure
- SWOG: Southwest Oncology Group
T
- TRI: UAMS Translational Research Institute
U
- UPIRTSO: unanticipated problems involving risks to subjects and others