Consensus on Language for Advance Informed Consent in Health Care-Associated Pneumonia Clinical Trials Using a Delphi Process.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Information to be included in advance informed consent forms for health care-associated pneumonia treatment trials remains to be determined.

Objective

To identify and determine how to describe information to be included in an advance informed consent form for an early-enrollment noninferiority hospital-acquired and/or ventilator-associated bacterial pneumonia (HABP/VABP) clinical trial.

Design, setting, and participants

A Delphi consensus process with stakeholders in HABP/VABP clinical trials was conducted using qualitative semistructured telephone interviews from June to August 2016, followed by 2 online surveys, the first from April to May 2017, and the second from September to October 2017. All stakeholders who participated in the interview were invited

SUBMITTER: Corneli A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7244987 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature