Quality of parental consent in a Ugandan malaria study

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 95, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1184-1189

  Pace, Christine ^e   Talisuna, Ambrose ^b   Wendler, David ^a   Maiso, Faustin ^b   Wabwire Mangen, Fred ^c   Bakyaita, Nathan ^c   Okiria, Edith ^c   Garrett Mayer, Elizabeth S ^d   Emanuel, Ezekiel ^a   Grady, Christine ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Uganda)

^c MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL RESEARCH; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MALARIA; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PARENTAL CONSENT; REVIEW;

BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; EMPIRICAL APPROACH;

ANTIMALARIALS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA; MALE; PARENTAL CONSENT; UGANDA;

EID: 11444260689     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2004.053082     Document Type: Review

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