Impact of French 'Comités de Protection des Personnes' on the readability of informed consent documents (ICD) in biomedical research: More information, but not better information

Fundamental and Clinical Pharmacology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 395-399

  Paris, Adeline ^a,b   Cracowski, Jean Luc ^a,b   Maison, Patrick ^c   Radauceanu, Anca ^a   Cornu, Catherine ^a   Hommel, Marc ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^c Clinical Pharmacology Unit of Créteil   (France)

Author keywords

Ethical committee; Informed consent document; Institutional review board; Readability

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL RESEARCH; FRANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; INFORMED CONSENT; LAW; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; REVIEW;

BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; EMPIRICAL APPROACH;

FRANCE; INFORMED CONSENT; LANGUAGE; READING; RESEARCH;

EID: 20044390814     PISSN: 07673981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-8206.2005.00327.x     Document Type: Review

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