Expedited Review

(1) The expedited review procedure is a review of a research proposal by the chairperson or a subgroup of the Research Review Committee. The reviewer may exercise all of the authorities of the Committee except disapproval of the research. A research activity may be disapproved only after review by the full Committee in accordance with the applicable requirements set out in 115 CMR 10.00. (2) The expedited review procedure is permitted only for research which: (a) seeks access only to private information; (b) represents only minor changes to previously approved research, to be implemented during the period for which approval is authorized. (c) the research consists of the study of historical records; or (d) the researchconsists ofa reviewofrecords for the sole purpose of extracting information for a demographic or statistical study in which no person can be identified.