The Johns Hopkins study reviewed the template forms of 114 campuses - nearly all the country's accredited medical schools. It applied two widely used readability tests: the Flesch-Kincaid and the Fry.

Institutions as diverse as the National Cancer Institute and the State University of New York Downstate Medical School have presented informed-consent templates and sample forms that are below an ...

The consent forms signed by patients who take part in medical studies are written in such complex language that most Americans could not understand them, a study suggests. The study looked at the ...

Defines informed consent; Outlines where to find the most up-to-date consent form template, the HRP-502; Identifies the parts of the Informed Consent form; Shares how to deliver information to ...