Comparative Effectiveness of eConsent: Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Providing informed consent means agreeing to participate in a clinical trial and having understood what is involved. Flawed informed consent processes, including missing dates and signatures, are common regulatory audit findings. Electronic consent (eConsent) uses digital technologies to enable the consenting process. It aims to improve participant comprehension and engagement with study information and to address data quality concerns.

Objective

This systematic literature review aimed to assess the effectiveness of eConsent in terms of patient comprehension, acceptability, usability, and study enrollment and retention rates, as well as the effects of eConsent on the time patients took to perform the consenting process ("cycle time") and on-site workload in compar

SUBMITTER: Cohen E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10504628 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature