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BACKGROUNDInformed consent for clinical research includes 2 components: informed consent documents (ICDs) and informed consent conversations (ICCs). Readability software has been used to help simplify the language of the ICD, but to the authors' knowledge is rarely used to assess the language used during the ICC, which may influence the quality of informed consent. The current analysis was performed...
BackgroundThe aim of this study was to examine adolescent patients' perspectives on their understanding and decision making about a pediatric Phase I cancer study.
ProcedureParticipants included adolescents ages 14–21 years with cancer (N = 20), all of whom attended a Phase I study consent conference. Participants responded to closed‐ and open‐ended questions on a verbally administered structured...
BACKGROUND.This study was conducted to gather pediatric oncologists' opinions about and suggestions for improvement of informed consent (IC) in pediatric phase 1 cancer trials.
METHODS.A questionnaire designed to elicit perspectives was distributed to 146 physicians at 6 participating institutions. A total of 103 completed surveys were returned for a 71% response rate.
RESULTS.Pediatric oncologists...
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