The benefits of fully electronic consent management and consent collection via a tablet PC in supporting time-critical pandemic research—an example from a NAPKON COVID-19 project
Fully electronic informed consent collection is the "best practice" approach to ensure valid CFs and increase initial patient inclusion rates in studies. Due to the additional benefits, including shorter time-to-research, electronic consent form collection should be integrated into pandemic response schemes and other time-critical research.
Authors
- Arne Blumentritt (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6068-0752)
- Lizon Fiedler-Lacombe
- Henriette Rau (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0816-0693)
- Monika Kraus (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4825-8724)
- Heike Valentin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6379-6534)
- Martin Bialke (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6888-9086)
- Wolfgang Hoffmann (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6359-8797)
- Dana Stahl (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4283-4543)
- Edgar Heim
Institutions
- Universitätsmedizin Greifswald (DE)
- Helmholtz Zentrum München (DE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Frontiers in Digital Health
- Published
- 2025-09-29
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3389/fdgth.2025.1489176
- Citations
- 3
- Primary Topic
- Ethics in Clinical Research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 5.64