The random dialing survey as a tool for community consultation for research involving the emergency medicine exception from informed consent.

ABSTRACT:

Study objective

In 1996, the Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Health and Human Services enacted rules allowing a narrow exception from informed consent for critically ill patients enrolled in emergency research. These include requirements for community consultation prior to trial implementation. Previous studies have noted difficulty in engaging the community. We seek to describe the experience with random dialing surveys as a tool for community consultation across 5 metropolitan regions in the United States.

Methods

Random dialing surveys were used as part of the community consultation for an out-of-hospital clinical trial sponsored by the Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium. The survey method was designed to obtain a representative sample of the community a

SUBMITTER: Bulger EM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3005614 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature