Consulting communities when patients cannot consent: A multicenter study of community consultation for research in emergency settings

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 272-280

  Dickert, Neal W ^a   Mah, Victoria A ^a   Biros, Michelle H ^b   Harney, Deneil M ^c   Silbergleit, Robert ^c   Sugarman, Jeremy ^d   Veledar, Emir ^e   Weinfurt, Kevin P ^f   Wright, David W ^a   Pentz, Rebecca D ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e EMORY CLINIC   (United States)

^f DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioethics; Community Consultation; Ethics; Informed Consent; Research In Emergency Settings

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMUNITY CARE; EMERGENCY; ETHICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMED CONSENT; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATIENT REFERRAL;

ADULT; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; COMMUNITY NETWORKS; DATA COLLECTION; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; MALE; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION;

EID: 84893337052     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3182a27759     Document Type: Article

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