Comment by avs733

Other note...different irbs treat not research vs exempt differently.

One institution I worked with conflated “exempt” and “not human subjects research” and required the same review of both.

Another institution separated them and would first establish if something was human subjects research. If it was, they would then review whether it was exempt from irb review based on certain categories. If they determined it was not human subjects research they would not review whether it met the exempt criteria, because in their mind they could not make such a determination for research that did not involve human subjects