Thursday 29 September 2011

Understand The Informed Consent Before You Take Part In The Clinical Trial

Clinical trials are the tests conducted on the human beings to make a study the enhancement of the new drug or the treatment that has incubated from the Clinical trial procedures. Volunteers that participate in the Clinical trial are asked to sign an informed consent before they participate in the medical trial. What is this informed consent all about? Why is it required? These are questions that sit in the brain of the volunteer making him sacred before he enters the process.

“The informed consent provides a summary of the clinical trial (including its purpose, the treatment procedures and schedule, potential risks and benefits, alternatives to participation, etc.) and explains your rights as a participant”. 
                                                                                                                Source: www.cancer.gov 

Once you and your researcher take the decision to conduct the clinical trial and you fit in all the eligible category like age disease, stage of the diseases. You will be asked to sign an informed which notifies your consent to participate in the clinical trial that is being conducted.

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