Category Archives: IREx Study Manager

New Feature: sIRB is notified after Study Manager publishes any Study-wide Approval

sIRB liaisons receiving notifications for a study will receive an email notification when the study manager has published any study-wide approval (e.g., Continuing reviews and study-wide amendments) in IREx. The subject line of this notification reads “FYI: Overall Approval Uploaded to IREx”. Study managers are also copied on this email. The email will list the type of approval and provide a link to the study. No action steps are associated with this notification.

Updated Feature: Removed ‘Add PI Info’ step on the Study Managers’ Getting Started Checklist

The ‘Add PI Info’ step has been removed from the study managers’ Getting Started Checklist to help streamline other actionable steps. The sIRB liaison and study manager can add PI information from the Edit Participating Site dialog when listing a site and from the Status Summary tab before notifying the sites’ access to the study.

Updated Feature: The ‘Upload Overall Study Approval’ and ‘Publish Approval’ steps will now appear at the top of the Study Manager checklist

To help study managers prioritize their actions, the ‘Upload Overall Study Approval’ and ‘Publish Approval’ steps will not appear at the top of the Study Managers’ Getting Started Checklist when an initial approval, continuing review, or study-wide amendment is in progress. These steps disappear after the overall approval is published.

New Feature: SIRBs and Study Managers can Resend Study Notification to Sites

The sIRB and Study Manager can now re-notify/contact a site about a study by resending the “IREx study at your site” notification. This is done by clicking the site’s ‘Contacted’ status from the Status Summary tab. The subject line of the email notification will include the sender’s name who is re-contacting the site (e.g., “Jane Smith is resending your IREx Study Notification”). This feature is used to follow up with sites that have not yet started on the study.

Updated Feature: The Manage Version, site amendment pop-up has been updated

On the Study-wide IRB Approvals tab for sIRBs and Study Manager, the “+Add Site Amendment” button on the Manage Version tab has been updated to include pop-up text directing users, “To add a SITE amendment click on the Approval History tab”. This is to reflect the changes where sIRBs and Study Managers can add site amendments from the Approval History tab.