All comments from the HREC or ethics panels are located within the application form and are marked as ‘Action Comments’ or ‘General Comments’.
A red bubble indicates that you need to respond to one or more comments.
To reveal the comment, click the ‘Comments’ button and then the arrow.
Respond to each question within the application by clicking ‘Reply’.
Once you have completed your response, click ‘Post’ and the red flag/bubble will turn yellow to show it has been actioned.
Ensure that all bubbles have changed from red to yellow, as you cannot re-submit when the status of any comment is still red.
In addition to
responding to comments, you must also amend your actual application in the relevant section, to
include/clarify the information requested by the HREC/ ERP. The benefit of this change is to ensure
the final approved application will reflect the changes requested by the HREC/ERP, AND it will assist
your research team members (and NEW team members) to easily identify what has been approved
as part of the ethics review process (noting that non approved activities would have been deleted
from the application form and a record of changes is kept via the commenting system).
The whole application needs to reflect the changes, so that the final approved version is the most
recent iteration.