The consent forms signed by patients who take part in medical studies are written in such complex language that most Americans could not understand them, a study suggests. The study looked at the ...

Consent forms that people sign before participating in research are widely considered difficult to understand and sometimes inaccurate. Lack of clarity was implicated in a high-profile legal ...

Ethicists have suggested that written consent forms encourage participants in phase 1 cancer trials to expect benefit from the experimental agent and to overlook serious risks. Of 272 forms, 268 ...

To improve patient consent form comprehension, researchers have developed approaches to simplify the process by focusing on the information that patients need most when deciding whether to enroll in a ...

In a cross-sectional study, ChatGPT demonstrated variable effectiveness in generating informed consent forms for treatment with energy-based dermatologic devices, highlighting the need for expert ...

Relatively simple improvements could increase patient satisfaction and potentially improve the important process of imparting patient information during enrollment of cancer patients into clinical ...

Informed consent is more than just a form; it is a process that actively involves the participant. It is an "ongoing exchange of information between the investigator and [participant]" per the OHRP.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . ChatGPT instantaneously generated informed consent forms for cosmetic dermatology. However, the forms exceeded ...

Health data’s potential can be vertigo-inducing, with seemingly limitless insights available to be mined from data sets old and new. The risks, too, can turn the stomach: faulty and biased algorithms; ...