Practice variation across consent templates for biobank research. A survey of German biobanks

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue NOV, 2013, Pages

  Hirschberg, Irene ^a   Knüppel, Hannes ^a   Strech, Daniel ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biobank; Broad consent; Informed consent; Research ethics; Survey; Thematic text analysis; Tissue bank

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890264392     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2013.00240     Document Type: Article

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