Community based trials and informed consent in rural north India.
Journal Article (Journal Article)
Disease control has increasingly shifted towards large scale, disease specific, public health interventions. The emerging problems of HIV, hepatitis, malaria, typhoid, tuberculosis, childhood pneumonia, and meningitis have made community based trials of interventions a cost effective long term investment for the health of a population. The authors conducted this study to explore the complexities involved in obtaining informed consent to participation in rural north India, and how people there make decisions related to participation in clinical research.
Full Text
Duke Authors
Cited Authors
- DeCosta, A; D'Souza, N; Krishnan, S; Chhabra, MS; Shihaam, I; Goswami, K
Published Date
- June 2004
Published In
Volume / Issue
- 30 / 3
Start / End Page
- 318 - 323
PubMed ID
- 15173372
Pubmed Central ID
- PMC1733858
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
- 0306-6800
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
- 10.1136/jme.2002.001065
Language
- eng
Conference Location
- England