If you mean what I understand to be quality assurance research, it doesn’t require such approval, at least, in Canada. This is research used to improve services (e.g., hospital food or student services in a university). There will be no publications that come out of such research. It is different from hypothesis-driven original research that results in the dissemination of a scholarly product.

Publiications are possible in all quality assurance research in clinics, hospitals, medical centers, pharmacies anywhere in the world.

Dennis

Dennis Mazur

Also, there are peer-reviewed quality-assurance journals awaiting submissions from quality assurance researchers in all domains.

Dennis

Dennis Mazur

Dear Dr Poff & Dr Mazur,

Thanks for your answers

If I want to publish the quality assurance research, Is this type of research need an IRB approval.

If the answer yes. But, the data were collected, can I obtain the IRB approval retrospectively?

Thanks in advance

usually it requires IRB exemption