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Towards an understanding of the ethics of electronic consent in clinical trials

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: There are good practical reasons to use electronic consent (e-consent) in randomised trials, especially when conducting large-scale clinical trials to answer population-level health research questions. However, determining ethical reasons for e-consent is not so clear and depends on a proper understanding of what e-consent means when used in clinical trials and its ethical significance. Here we focus on four features of ethical significance which give rise to a range of ethical considerations relating to e-consent and merit further focused ethics research.

Source: Trials

DOI: 10.1186/s13063-024-08330-3

Authors: Katherine Sahan, Rohan Wijesurendra, David Preiss, Marion Mafham, Mark Sheehan

Institution: University of Oxford

Language: English

Topic: Ethics in Clinical Research

Subfield: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $2,590