Clinical Research in Vulnerable Populations: Variability and Focus of Institutional Review Boards’ Responses

• Bärbel Kästner ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Bärbel Kästner, Simone Behre

  Affiliation Coordination Center for Clinical Trials (KKS), University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Simone Behre ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Bärbel Kästner, Simone Behre

  Affiliation Coordination Center for Clinical Trials (KKS), University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Nadine Lutz,

  Affiliation Pediatric Neurology and Metabolic Medicine, Center for Rare Disease, Center for Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Friederike Bürger,

  Affiliation Pediatric Neurology and Metabolic Medicine, Center for Rare Disease, Center for Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Steffen Luntz,

  Affiliation Coordination Center for Clinical Trials (KKS), University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Katrin Hinderhofer,

  Affiliation Institute for Human Genetics, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Martin Bendszus,

  Affiliation Neuroradiology, Department of Neurology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Georg F. Hoffmann,

  Affiliation Pediatric Neurology and Metabolic Medicine, Center for Rare Disease, Center for Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Markus Ries

  * E-mail: markus.ries@uni-heidelberg.de

  Affiliation Pediatric Neurology and Metabolic Medicine, Center for Rare Disease, Center for Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

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