Informed Consent: The Consumer's Guide to the Risks and Benefits of Volunteering for Clinical Trials

Informed Consent is a 300-page guidebook designed to assist patients and health consumers in understanding the clinical trial process and their rights as study volunteers. This first-of-its-kind consumers' guidebook provides comprehensive facts and objectives, expert commentary for patientsand their advocates to use in order to evaluate whether to include clinical trials among their treatment options. This consumer's guide is also an ideal resource for research professionals to use when discussing clinical trials as medical treatment options and when addressing volunteer questionsand concerns. Topics include...* Detailed discussion of risks and benefits of participation * The informed consent process * How clinical trials are designed and conducted * A history of policies and regulations that protect volunteer safety and ethical treatment * The roles and responsibilities of investigators, coordinators, IRBs and sponsors * A useful and practical appendix of reference information.Deborah Borfitz is the author of 'Informed Consent: The Consumer's Guide to the Risks and Benefits of Volunteering for Clinical Trials' with ISBN 9781930624092 and ISBN 1930624093.