Conwit, Robin

Simultaneous ring voice-over-Internet phone system enables rapid physician elicitation of explicit informed consent in prehospital stroke treatment trials.

Author(s): 
Sanossian, Nerses | 
Starkman, Sidney | 
Liebeskind, David S | 
Ali, Latisha K | 
Restrepo, Lucas | 
Hamilton, Scott | 
Conwit, Robin | 
Saver, Jeffrey L | 
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Journal Title: 
Cerebrovascular diseases (Basel, Switzerland)
Publication Date: 
Nov 26, 2009

BACKGROUND: Cellular phone conversations between on-scene patients or their legally authorized representatives (LARs) and off-scene enrolling physician-investigators require immediate and reliable connection systems to obtain explicit informed research consent in prehospital treatment trials.

MeSH Terms: 
Aged | 
Calcium Channel Blockers | 
Cell Phones | 
Female | 
Humans | 
Informed Consent | 
Internet | 
Los Angeles | 
Magnesium Sulfate | 
Male | 
National Institutes of Health (U.S.) | 
Physicians | 
Prospective Studies | 
Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic | 
Stroke | 
Time Factors | 
United States