Some great ideas regarding language to use during the informed consent process has come to us via firstclinical.com. Basic Concepts for Informed Consent covers some of the foundational elements behind the concept of truly informed consent, and translates them into language subjects are likely to understand. It addresses some of the issues that can be confusing to people who don’t work in research, such as equipoise and blinding.
We also encourage you to look around the entire firstclinical.com website. This site makes available a listing of research-related resources, from regulatory documents to articles about research-related topics. The site’s aim is to provide “clinical research best practices information to help sponsors, sites and CROs operate more effectively and efficiently.”