Patient reactions to confidentiality, liability, and financial aspects of informed consent in cardiology research.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although the informed consent process is supposed to help potential research participants make informed and voluntary decisions about participating in research, little is known about how participants react to language in the informed consent document and whether their reactions are related to their willingness to enroll in clinical trials. We examined the relationship between patients' reactions to standard informed consent language and their willingness to participate in a hypothetical clinical trial.

Methods and results

We simulated the consent process for a hypothetical cardiology clinical trial with 470 patients in an outpatient cardiovascular medicine clinic at a large academic medical center. We analyzed the spontaneous comments and questions that participan

SUBMITTER: Fortune-Greeley AK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3418870 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature