Consent in clinical trials: What do patients know?

Contemporary Clinical Trials

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 443-446

  Hereu, Pilar ^a   Pérez, Eulàlia ^a,b,c   Fuentes, Inma ^a,b   Vidal, Xavier ^a,b,c   Suñé, Pilar ^b   Arnau, Josep Maria ^a,b,c  

^a Fundacion Institut Catala de Farmacologia   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Clinical trials; Ethics Committee; Informed consent; Knowledge; Questionnaire; Recruitment

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; KNOWLEDGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; ETHICS COMMITTEES, RESEARCH; ETHICS, RESEARCH; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PATIENT SELECTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH SUBJECTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77957749490     PISSN: 15517144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cct.2010.05.004     Document Type: Article

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