"Dogs on Call": A Community-Engaged Human Subjects Training with Hospital Based Therapy Dog Teams.

As community-engaged research (CER) methods evolve, Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) must adapt policies to facilitate CER research. This paper describes a novel collaboration between hospital-based therapy dog volunteer teams (CERs), academic faculty, and an IRB. CER volunteers delivered a canine-assisted intervention to hospitalized adults in a clinical trial.