Writing readable consent forms: how useful is the advice given by IRBs?

摘要: Institutional review boards (IRBs) often provide researchers with advice about how to write readable consent forms (CFs) for human subjects research. This work reports on the type, amount, and accuracy of given 30 IRB Web sites. Our findings suggest that this advice, while well-intended, is weak or uneven in one more these areas. study provides insight into assumptions type bureaucratic body holds construct prose it communicates those subject-matter experts. It also demonstrates mechanism through which (sometimes faulty) writing are perpetuated legitimatized.