I know this is a slightly obscure question but hopefully there’s a couple people that are able to answer my question.
I do clinical research at a hospital and obviously because everything is with human subjects (as opposed to in a wet lab/undergrad lab using mice) any project proposal has to go through the IRB before actual data analysis can start.
I have several projects in which I am first author on that if our hypothesis stands have potential to influence monitoring guidelines and indications for surgery. These IRB proposals were only just now approved after several rounds of review and feedback despite being submitted last year, so obviously none of these papers would be (hopefully) published until well after I’ve submitted primaries.
My questions are:
Should I include the IRB approval numbers from my respective institution with summaries of the proposal itself and the potential positive implications our results could yield?
Is there a way to submit some sort of follow up letter or report to schools in the event I did get pubs out of these papers and if so is it worth it assuming (i.e. would it make a difference in my application) these are published in the high impact journals my other papers have been published in?
Again any help is very much appreciated! Thank you!