Physicians' understanding of consent requirements for phase I clinical trials in cognitively impaired or highly vulnerable populations.

Publication/Presentation Date

1-1-2004

Abstract

We investigated physicians' attitudes about entering patients who cannot give informed consent or who are of a vulnerable population into clinical trials. A survey instrument asked a nationwide sample of practicing physicians about whether ten hypothetical patients could be enrolled in a phase I clinical trials. The impact of demographic variables on the number of scenarios viewed as completely or somewhat acceptable was analyzed via student's T tests or analysis of variance (ANOVA) as applicable. All significant (p

Volume

11

Issue

1

First Page

63

Last Page

78

ISSN

0898-9621

Disciplines

Medicine and Health Sciences

PubMedID

15341047

Department(s)

Department of Medicine

Document Type

Article

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