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.

Paasche-Orlow and colleagues surveyed the Web sites of 114 U.S. medical schools (of a total 124) for IRB reading comprehension standards and consent form templates.

Memorial’s current surgical consent form, which is typical, includes this sentence: “[T]he hospital has my permission to use [my] tissues and organs in any way that advances medical science ...

IRBs commonly present investigators with readability standards and informed-consent text, in the form of templates and sample forms. We surveyed U.S. medical schools to test the hypothesis that ...

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 ...

Turkish historians have uncovered the oldest-known example of a signed written consent form. Dating back to the 16th Century Ottoman Empire, the discovery Skip to content ...

Long before the written consent form was adopted in the West, it was apparently in practice in the 16th Century Ottoman Empire, according to some Turkish historians. It wasn’t until the 1947 ...

Compared to the original consent forms, Ali found the GPT-4-generated forms used significantly fewer characters and words, decreased reading time from 3.26 minutes to 2.42, and had fewer sentences ...