Can user testing of a clinical trial patient information sheet make it fit-for-purpose? - A randomized controlled trial

BMC Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Knapp, Peter ^a   Raynor, David K ^b   Silcock, Jonathan ^c   Parkinson, Brian ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d Making Sense Design   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMED CONSENT; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL RECORD; PATIENT INFORMATION; PATIENT PREFERENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); READING; AGED; CLINICAL TRIAL; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STANDARD; UNITED KINGDOM;

AGED; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; COMPREHENSION; CONSENT FORMS; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 79960564053     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7015-9-89     Document Type: Article

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