Trial reportAcademic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine2016
Telemedicine Provides Noninferior Research Informed Consent for Remote Study Enrollment: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
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36 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 49 citations in OpenAlex.
- Strategies to improve recruitment to randomised trials.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2026Pooled it
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- Views on consent approaches used in emergency and critical care research: a rapid, systematic review.Trials · 2026Pooled it
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- Implementation of Electronic Informed Consent in Biomedical Research and Stakeholders' Perspectives: Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2020Pooled it
- Benefits and Challenges of a Digital Exercise and Mind-Body Program During Active Cancer Treatment: Qualitative Study of Patients' Perceptions.JMIR cancer · 2026Trial
- Recruiting and Consenting Decentralized Clinical Trial Participants-Learnings from the Trials@Home RADIAL Proof-of-Concept Trial.Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics · 2025Trial
- Comparing in-person and remote consent of people with dementia into a primary care-based cluster randomised controlled trial: lessons from the Dementia PersonAlised Care Team (D-PACT) feasibility study.BMC medical research methodology · 2025Trial
- Informed Consent for Pediatric Lyme Meningitis Study: In-Person Versus Remote Approach.Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine · 2026Article
- Quality of Informed Consent via Telemedicine Compared With In-Person for Clinical Cancer Research.JCO oncology practice · 2026Article
- Patient engagement and shared decision-making in trial recruitment intervention studies: a systematic review.Research involvement and engagement · 2025Review
- Medical machine learning operations: a framework to facilitate clinical AI development and deployment in radiology.European radiology · 2025Review
- Describing the content of trial recruitment interventions using the TIDieR reporting checklist: a systematic methodology review.BMC medical research methodology · 2024Article
- Narrative review of telemedicine applications in decentralized research.Journal of clinical and translational science · 2024Review
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- Digital Online Patient Informed Consent for Anesthesia before Elective Surgery-Recent Practice in Europe.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Interventions to improve access to clinical trials in urologic oncology.Canadian Urological Association journal = Journal de l'Association des urologues du Canada · 2023Article
- Effect of Realistic Test Conditions on Perception of Speech, Music, and Binaural Cues in Normal-Hearing Listeners.American journal of audiology · 2023Article
- Inclusion of older adults and reporting of consent processes in randomized controlled trials in the emergency department: A scoping review.Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open · 2022Article
- Participant comprehension and perspectives regarding the convenience, security, and satisfaction with teleconsent compared to in-person consent: A parallel-group pilot study among Danish citizens.Contemporary clinical trials communications · 2022Article
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Abstract
objectiveTelemedicine networks are beginning to provide an avenue for conducting emergency medicine research, but using telemedicine to recruit participants for clinical trials has not been validated. The goal of this consent study was to determine whether patient comprehension of telemedicine-enabled research informed consent is noninferior to standard face-to-face (F2F) research informed consent.
methodsA prospective, open-label randomized controlled trial was performed in a 60,000-visit Midwestern academic emergency department (ED) to test whether telemedicine-enabled research informed consent provided noninferior comprehension compared with standard consent. This study was conducted as part of a parent clinical trial evaluating the effectiveness of 0.12% oral chlorhexidine gluconate in preventing hospital-acquired pneumonia among adult ED patients with expected hospital admission. Prior to being recruited into the study, potential participants were randomized in a 1:1 allocation ratio to consent by telemedicine versus standard F2F consent. Telemedicine connectivity was provided using a commercially available interface (REACH platform, Vidyo Inc.) to an emergency physician located in another part of the ED. Comprehension of research consent (primary outcome) was measured using the modified quality of informed consent (QuIC) instrument, a validated tool for measuring research informed consent comprehension. Parent trial accrual rate and qualitative survey data were secondary outcomes.
resultsA total of 131 patients were randomized (n = 64, telemedicine), and 101 QuIC surveys were completed. Comprehension of research informed consent using telemedicine was not inferior to F2F consent (QuIC scores 74.4 ± 8.1 vs. 74.4 ± 6.9 on a 100-point scale, p = 0.999). Subjective understanding of consent (p = 0.194) and parent trial study accrual rates (56% vs. 69%, p = 0.142) were similar.
conclusionTelemedicine is noninferior to F2F consent for delivering research informed consent, with no detected differences in comprehension and patient-reported understanding. This consent study will inform design of future telemedicine-enabled clinical trials.
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