Technical Communication Quarterly Apr 2012

Redesigning Informed Consent Tools for Specific Research

David Wright Missouri University of Science and Technology

Abstract

Consent tools for health research generally are designed without contextual or linguistic factors in mind. This is especially true of university-based research. This case history details our design team's efforts to transform one generic consent form into a set of multimodal tools that will increase patients’ understanding of and participation in a medical study.

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Technical Communication Quarterly
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2012-04-01
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10.1080/10572252.2012.641432
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