Reporting of consent rates in critical care studies: Room for improvement

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 74, Issue , 2016, Pages 51-56

  Garde, Avanti ^a,c   O'Hearn, Katie ^b   Nicholls, Stuart ^b   Menon, Kusum ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF EASTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bias; Consent; Consent rate; Critical care; Intensive care unit; Medical ethics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL STUDY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MEDICAL LITERATURE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); EPIDEMIOLOGY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PROCEDURES; RESEARCH; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CRITICAL CARE; EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; RESEARCH REPORT;

EID: 84950112387     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: 18785921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2015.11.015     Document Type: Review

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