TY - GEN
T1 - Characteristics of Electronic Informed Consent Platforms for Consenting Patients to Research Studies
T2 - 18th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics: One World, One Health - Global Partnership for Digital Innovation, MEDINFO 2021
AU - Guarino, Jennifer
AU - Parvanova, Irena
AU - Finkelstein, Joseph
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) and IOS Press.
PY - 2022/6/6
Y1 - 2022/6/6
N2 - Informed consent process assures that research study participants are properly informed about the study prior to their consent. Due to the increasing significance of electronic informed consent (eIC) platforms, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, we conducted a scoping review of eIC systems to address the following characteristics: 1) technological features of current eIC platforms, 2) eIC platforms usability and efficacy, and 3) areas for future eIC research. We performed a literature search using publically available PubMed repository, where we included studies discussing an eIC platform or multimedia educational module given to patients prior to signing a consent form. In addition, we tracked first author, year of publication, sample size, study location, eIC procedure, methodology, and eIC's comparison to paper consent. Our results showed that with a few noted exceptions, electronic consent improves patient usability, satisfaction, knowledge, and trust scores when compared to traditional paper consent.
AB - Informed consent process assures that research study participants are properly informed about the study prior to their consent. Due to the increasing significance of electronic informed consent (eIC) platforms, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, we conducted a scoping review of eIC systems to address the following characteristics: 1) technological features of current eIC platforms, 2) eIC platforms usability and efficacy, and 3) areas for future eIC research. We performed a literature search using publically available PubMed repository, where we included studies discussing an eIC platform or multimedia educational module given to patients prior to signing a consent form. In addition, we tracked first author, year of publication, sample size, study location, eIC procedure, methodology, and eIC's comparison to paper consent. Our results showed that with a few noted exceptions, electronic consent improves patient usability, satisfaction, knowledge, and trust scores when compared to traditional paper consent.
KW - electronic informed consent
KW - scoping review
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85131468133&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3233/SHTI220184
DO - 10.3233/SHTI220184
M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 35673123
AN - SCOPUS:85131468133
T3 - Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
SP - 777
EP - 781
BT - MEDINFO 2021
A2 - Otero, Paula
A2 - Scott, Philip
A2 - Martin, Susan Z.
A2 - Huesing, Elaine
PB - IOS Press BV
Y2 - 2 October 2021 through 4 October 2021
ER -