Informed Consent

An investigator obtaining informed consent traditionally asks participants to sign a written consent document — an approach that is becoming outdated. This multipart review examines electronic and video informed consent and consent in app-based and Internet-based trials, with videos showing examples...

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Published in:The New England journal of medicine Vol. 376; no. 9; pp. 856 - 867
Main Authors: Grady, Christine, Cummings, Steven R, Rowbotham, Michael C, McConnell, Michael V, Ashley, Euan A, Kang, Gagandeep
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: United States Massachusetts Medical Society 02.03.2017
Series:The Changing Face of Clinical Trials
Subjects:
Clinical trials
Clinical Trials as Topic - ethics
Ethics, Research
Human subjects
Humans
Informed Consent
Innovations
Internet
Mobile Applications
Research methodology
India
ISSN:0028-4793, 1533-4406, 1533-4406
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Summary:An investigator obtaining informed consent traditionally asks participants to sign a written consent document — an approach that is becoming outdated. This multipart review examines electronic and video informed consent and consent in app-based and Internet-based trials, with videos showing examples. This multipart review provides an overview of innovative approaches to improving and expanding the informed consent process for researchers and participants, along with short essays covering specific areas of innovation. The Changing Face of Informed Consent Christine Grady, R.N., Ph.D. In the classic interaction in which informed consent is obtained for research, an investigator presents the potential participant with information regarding a new therapeutic, diagnostic, or prophylactic intervention and then asks the participant to read and sign a detailed written consent document. This traditional prototype is becoming outdated. Informed consent, which is ethically essential in most clinical research, respects persons’ . . .
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ISSN:0028-4793
1533-4406
1533-4406
DOI:10.1056/NEJMra1603773