Community consultation for Exception from Informed consent (EFIC) before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

Describe community consultation and surrogate consent rates for two Exception From Informed Consent (EFIC) trials for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OOHCA) - before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods

The PEARL study (2016-2018) randomized OOHCA patients without ST-elevation to early cardiac catheterization or not. Community consultation included flyers, radio announcements, newspaper advertisements, mailings, and in-person surveys at basketball games and ED waiting rooms. The PROTECT trial (2021-present) randomizes OOHCA survivors to prophylactic ceftriaxone or placebo; the community consultation plan during the pandemic included city council presentations, social media posts, outpatient flyers, but no in-person encounters. Demographics for PROTECT community cons

SUBMITTER: Gagnon DJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9581796 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature