Clinical Trials Administrator Archives – June 1, 2006
June 1, 2006
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Special Report: Improving Informed Consent: Improve clinical trial compliance by following these informed consent tips
Clinical trial sites and research institutions increasingly are recognizing the need to improve the informed consent process, which is where compliance problems often occur. -
Special Report: Improving Informed Consent: How you can get people to read the consent form
Consent forms typically are long, cumbersome, and unfriendly packages that potential study participants might treat like the standard forms they sign at doctor's offices, or worse, like disclaimers to check when installing new software on their computers. -
Consent studies shed a little light on consent practices
Research about the informed consent process is beginning to trickle in, but some institutions have made this a priority. -
Special Report: Improving Informed Consent: Cognitive interviewing becoming part of process
Sometimes the biggest problem after a clinical trials professional sits down with a participant to provide informed consent is that the participant doesn't know what he doesn't understand. -
When words mean one thing to researchers, and another to subjects
Sometimes the simplest words can be misunderstood when people are interviewed by an investigator, and this is why cognitive interviewing research is growing. -
New journal focuses on evidence-based ethics
There is a new research journal in town, and it's likely to create a stir in the clinical trials research industry and the IRB world.