Research participants' "irrational" expectations: Common or commonly mismeasuredf

IRB Ethics and Human Research

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-9

  Kim, Scott Y H ^a   De Vries, Raymond ^a   Wilson, Renee ^b   Parnami, Sonali ^a   Frank, Samuel ^c   Kieburtz, Karl ^b   Holloway, Robert C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GENE THERAPY; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; PARKINSON DISEASE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RESEARCH SUBJECT; UNITED STATES;

COMPREHENSION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GENETIC THERAPY; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; PARKINSON DISEASE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH SUBJECTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84873565408     PISSN: 01937758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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