Local media influence on opting out from an exception from informed consent trial.

ABSTRACT:

Study objective

News media are used for community education and notification in exception from informed consent clinical trials, yet their effectiveness as an added safeguard in such research remains unknown. We assessed the number of callers requesting opt-out bracelets after each local media report and described the errors and content within each media report.

Methods

We undertook a descriptive analysis of local media trial coverage (newspaper, television, radio, and Web log) and opt-out requests during a 41-month period at a single site participating in an exception from informed consent out-of-hospital trial. Two nontrial investigators independently assessed 41 content-based media variables (including background, trial information, graphics, errors, publication informati

SUBMITTER: Nelson MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3000411 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature