Forms
Initial Submission Forms
- Application for Full Committee Review of Human Subject Research
- Application for Expedited Review of Human Subject Research
- Application for Exempt Review of Human Subject Research
- Application for Review of Retrospective Human Subject Research
- Request for QI/QA Determination
- Request for Determination of Not Human Subjects Research
Here is the Departmental Scientific Review Checklist, if needed.
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS (what is paper, what is electronic): Click here
Amendments/Changes to Previously Approved Studies
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Request for Amendment Form
(used primarily for protocol, consent form and funding revisions) - Request to Add or Revise Recruitment/Retention Materials
- Request to Update or Add and Investigator's Drug or Device Brochure
- Changes to External Study Personnel or Off-Site Changes
- Request for Changes to KUMC/KULC Study Personnel
Continuing Review and Closing Studies
- Continuing Review Form
(This form is used for required recertification — annual or six-month — of non-exempt research) - Closure Request
(This form is used when a research study is completed or no longer pursued at KUMC)
Problem Reports
Reporting timeframes are working days. Timeframes listed are the maximum.
Urgent information that impacts subject safety must be reported to the HSC within 24 hours.
• Reporting Timeframe: Death, 24 hours; Other, 5 days
Problem Report B - External Adverse Drug Event: This form is for an event at an external (non-KUMC) site that is unexpected and related to study participation.
• Reporting Timeframe: 20 days
Problem Report C - Unanticipated Adverse Device Event: This form is for internal and external events relating to devices that are unexpected and related to study participaton.
• Reporting Timeframe: Internal Death, 24 hours; Internal Other, 5 days; External, 20 days
Problem Report D - Report of Non-Compliance: This form is for reporting deviations/violations of the study protocol.
• Reporting Timeframe: 5 days
Problem Report E - Study-Related Complaint: This form is for reporting subject-related complaints about the study.
• Reporting Timeframe: 5 days
Problem Report F - Monitoring/Audit Report: This form is for reporting monitoring/audit reports that indicate problems that could affect the safety of participants, influence the conduct of the study, or alter the HSC's approval to continue the study.
• Reporting Timeframe: 5 days
Problem Report G - Incarceration of a Study Participant
• Reporting Timeframe: 5 days
Problem Report H - Breach of Confidentiality/Loss of Data
• Reporting Timeframe: 5 days
Problem Report I - Other Problems: This form is for reporting all other problems including, but not limited to, equipment problems, availability of test articles/study materials or other availability of resources.
• Reporting Timeframe: 5 days
Report of New Information: This form is for reporting issues including, but not limited to, DSMB or DMC reports, safety reports, toxicology reports, or other interim findings; summaries of study-wide adverse events; suspension or termination of the study due to risk; publication that indicates an unanticipated change to the risk/benefit ratio of the study; an FDA alert, withdrawal from marketing, or other FDA information impacting the risk/benefit ration of the study.
Supplemental Initial Submission Forms
- Application Addendum for Cancer and Cancer-Related Studies
- Instructions
- Nursing Impact Form
- Supplemental Application for Research Involving Pregnant Women, Fetuses or Neonates
- Research Request for Human Specimens (This form is used to request materials from the Biospecimen Shared Resource)
- Radiation Safety Form RS06 (required for all studies that involve any form of radiation or use of a radioisotope)

