How to: Close a Protocol at Duke

When you receive a notice that your protocol is expiring, take stock of whether research activities are continuing.

If you are collecting new data, or working on analyzing identifiable data, you must renew your protocol. However, if the only activities are the analysis of de-identified/unidentifiable data and publication, you may allow the protocol to close.

You CAN do this by just doing nothing and allowing the protocol to expire on its own, but it's nicer to ourselves and to the IRB if you send a quick email saying that your research has concluded and you would like to close the protocol.

Update the psych/BergelsonLab/Lab_Documentation/Protocols/IRB_protocols_current.xlsx spreadsheet to say that the protocol is expired and list the closure date. Turn all lines associated with that protocol gray.