Assessing Whether Consent for a Clinical Trial Is Voluntary

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Annals of Internal Medicine
5 February 2013, Vol. 158. No. 3
http://www.annals.org/content/current

Letters
Assessing Whether Consent for a Clinical Trial Is Voluntary
Russell H. Horwitz, MD, PhD; Laura W. Roberts, MD; David W. Seal, PhD; Patrice Joseph, MD; Karen J. Maschke, PhD; Rose I. Verdier, MD; Sandy Nerette, MD; Jean W. Pape, MD; and Daniel W. Fitzgerald, MD

Background: Consent is necessary for the ethical conduct of clinical research, but ensuring that consent is both voluntary and informed is challenging in resource-poor settings. Previous efforts have focused on participant comprehension (1). We report the results of a study assessing whether consent to participate in an HIV vaccine trial done in Haiti was voluntary.

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