Analysis of the compliance of informed consent documents with good clinical practice guideline

Contemporary Clinical Trials

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 662-666

  Padhy, Biswa M ^a   Gupta, Pooja ^a   Gupta, Yogendra K ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Clinical trial; Ethics; Good clinical practice; Informed consent

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); GOOD CLINICAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; INDIA; INFORMED CONSENT; MEDICAL ETHICS; SCORING SYSTEM;

CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; ETHICS, RESEARCH; HUMANS; INDIA; INFORMED CONSENT; PATIENT SELECTION; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 79960893037     PISSN: 15517144     EISSN: 15592030     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cct.2011.05.016     Document Type: Article

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