Approve

The approve action allows the IACUC Administrator to record a protocol approval following a full committee review or a designated member review.

 

This action may be considered the final action in the lifecycle for an IACUC protocol.

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For IACUC protocols needing a full committee review, this action only appears after the Record Committee Action has been performed on the protocol with a motion type of Approve.

Table 464 Protocol Document, Protocol Actions Page, Request an Action Section, Available Actions – Approve Action - Action Attributes

  Action attributes

Description

Who can perform action

IACUC Administrators are allowed to perform this action

Protocol state prior to action

Prior to the action being performed, the protocol must be in the following state:  The protocol status must be Submitted to IACUC.

The submission status must be In agenda.

Protocol state after action

After the action is performed the protocol state changes as follows

 

The protocol status changes to Active.

The submission status changes to Approved.

 

Figure 888 Protocol Document, Protocol Actions Page, Request an Action Section, Available Actions – Approve Action Layout

Table 465 Protocol Document, Protocol Actions Page, Request an Action Section, Available Actions – Approve Action Field Descriptions

Field

Description

Approval Date

Specify the date you want the approval action to become effective.  By default, the field displays the current date.  To change it, click the calendar icon to select, or type in mm/dd/yyyy format to populate the box with the desired date.

Expiration Date

Specify the date in which the approval will expire.  By default, the field displays the current date.  To change it, click the calendar icon to select, or type in mm/dd/yyyy format to populate the box with the desired date.

Comments

To enter textual information to describe this action, click within the text box (or press the tab  key from a previous field) to relocate the cursor to the field, and then type (or paste from virtual clipboard) to enter text in the box as necessary to provide the appropriate information.  Click the add note  icon to view/edit/paste text in a new browser window, then click the continue button to return to the text entry field in the document.  After saving, click the green arrow  symbol to view full text in a separate browser window.

Action Date

Specify the date you want this action to become effective.  By default, the field displays the current date.  To change it, click the calendar icon to select, or type in mm/dd/yyyy format to populate the box with the desired date.

Review Comments

link.png For more information, see “Review Comments”.