Electronic Submission

All Scientific Review Committee submissions should be done in electronic form.  All documents must be submitted in Word document form not PDF.  Submissions should be provided to the WMREF office by the 3rd Thursday of each month. All submissions should be sent to tjones@wichitamedicalresearch.org. for

 Quality Improvement Documents

Investigators are encouraged to use the set of Instructions and the Clinical QI Worksheet below to help determine whether the proposed activity could be considered a) Quality Improvement (QI) project, b) QI project with research component(s), or c) research. This document provides guidance for determining when QI projects involving patients, staff, providers, etc. at Wesley Medical Center are subject to IRB review. The line between research and QI is not clear in federal standards and making the determination is among an IRB’s most difficult tasks.

Investigators/Clinicians may submit the “Clinical QI Worksheet” to the Wichita Medical Research and Education Foundation (WMREF) Institutional Review Board (IRB) along with accompanying documents for review. Please know that should the IRB determine that a QI project contains an aspect of research then a full research application is required.

The WMREF IRB cannot review a QI or research project that has already been initiated. Retrospective approval can never be granted by an IRB.