> the insistence on blinding patient's names with the blinding instrument right next to the blinded data
The requirement wasn't that the code should be next to the data, if I understood it correctly; rather that it be blinded and stored safely. Storing them together was the least-effort way he found of passing the requirement, partially defeating its purpose.
So if anything that's an argument for adding even more requirements to the IRB process in his hospital. Because grad students that feel sufficiently aggravated will do things like that.
The requirement wasn't that the code should be next to the data, if I understood it correctly; rather that it be blinded and stored safely. Storing them together was the least-effort way he found of passing the requirement, partially defeating its purpose.
So if anything that's an argument for adding even more requirements to the IRB process in his hospital. Because grad students that feel sufficiently aggravated will do things like that.