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.
Journal article
2024-08-01T00:00:00+00:00
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Ethox Centre, Oxford Population Health, University of Oxford, Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford, OX3 7LF, UK.
Humans, Comprehension, Research Design, Informed Consent, Research Subjects, Clinical Trials as Topic, Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic