Time (days) from submission to approval, approval to reception, and from submission to reception of the research ethics committees’ (REC) evaluations. Comparison between the timings of the six RECs which evaluate the largest number of protocols per year in Spain (G6 RECs in the table) and the timings of the remaining (n = 56) RECs evaluating protocols in this study
| Submission to approval | Approval to reception | Submission to reception | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean (SD), median, range | p Value | Mean (SD), median, range | p Value | Mean (SD), median, range | p Value | |
| n, number of applications submitted to each group of RECs. | ||||||
| G6 RECs | 38.5 (28.4), 32, 7–150 | 12.4 (10.2), 8, 0–39 | 50.9 (31.4), 45.5, 14–169 | |||
| n = 54 | ||||||
| <0.0001 | NS | <0.0001 | ||||
| 56 remaining RECs | 63.3 (33.1), 55, 10–188 | 18.9 (25.7), 11.5, 0–195 | 81.9 (38.6), 76, 20–236 | |||
| n = 129 | ||||||