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What is research?
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Research involving human subjects is defined as systematic investigation (including pilot studies, exploratory studies, and academic course work assignments) designed to contribute to generalizable knowledge. Generalizable knowledge consists of facts, theories, principles or relationships, or the accumulation of information on which they are based, that can be corroborated by accepted scientific methods of observation and inference. Research includes:
- obtaining data about a living individual through intervention (e.g. a medical procedure) or interaction (e.g. an interview) with the individual, or the obtaining of private personal information about the individual;
- secondary use of data (e.g. information, such as medical records, collected for purposes other than the proposed research) that contains identifying information about a living individual, or data linkage through which living individuals may become identifiable;
- naturalistic observation, except the observation of individuals in contexts in which it can be expected that the participants are seeking public visibility;
- the use of human remains, cadavers, tissues, biological fluids, embryos or fetuses.
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