Can I start recruiting while I wait?
No. Recruiting or collecting data before approval is a serious compliance problem, and data collected that way usually cannot be used. It is one of the few mistakes here that can genuinely end a study.
This comes up on IRB Application Support, where it is answered in the context of the work itself.
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