
by Jackie Tekiela, MS, CIP, Institutional Review Board (IRB) Administrator at Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) recently completed a two-year effort to revise the NCI informed consent template, resulting in shorter and more concise informed consent documents. In session A18, titled Rewriting the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Informed Consent Template, Jeanne M. Adler, RN, MPH, CCRP, presented the background, method, and rationale behind the changes. Throughout the presentation Jeanne offered specific examples of language and excerpts from the draft template.
In preparing the template, working [...] Read more