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Dynamic Consent: a potential solution to some of the challenges of modern biomedical research

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medical Ethics, January 2017
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Title
Dynamic Consent: a potential solution to some of the challenges of modern biomedical research
Published in
BMC Medical Ethics, January 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12910-016-0162-9
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Authors

Isabelle Budin-Ljøsne, Harriet J. A. Teare, Jane Kaye, Stephan Beck, Heidi Beate Bentzen, Luciana Caenazzo, Clive Collett, Flavio D’Abramo, Heike Felzmann, Teresa Finlay, Muhammad Kassim Javaid, Erica Jones, Višnja Katić, Amy Simpson, Deborah Mascalzoni

Abstract

Innovations in technology have contributed to rapid changes in the way that modern biomedical research is carried out. Researchers are increasingly required to endorse adaptive and flexible approaches to accommodate these innovations and comply with ethical, legal and regulatory requirements. This paper explores how Dynamic Consent may provide solutions to address challenges encountered when researchers invite individuals to participate in research and follow them up over time in a continuously changing environment. An interdisciplinary workshop jointly organised by the University of Oxford and the COST Action CHIP ME gathered clinicians, researchers, ethicists, lawyers, research participants and patient representatives to discuss experiences of using Dynamic Consent, and how such use may facilitate the conduct of specific research tasks. The data collected during the workshop were analysed using a content analysis approach. Dynamic Consent can provide practical, sustainable and future-proof solutions to challenges related to participant recruitment, the attainment of informed consent, participant retention and consent management, and may bring economic efficiencies. Dynamic Consent offers opportunities for ongoing communication between researchers and research participants that can positively impact research. Dynamic Consent supports inter-sector, cross-border approaches and large scale data-sharing. Whilst it is relatively easy to set up and maintain, its implementation will require that researchers re-consider their relationship with research participants and adopt new procedures.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
India 1 <1%
Belgium 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Unknown 309 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 47 15%
Researcher 44 14%
Student > Master 41 13%
Student > Bachelor 24 8%
Other 14 4%
Other 49 16%
Unknown 93 30%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 48 15%
Social Sciences 40 13%
Computer Science 21 7%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 20 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 11 4%
Other 72 23%
Unknown 100 32%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 26. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 28 May 2022.
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#1,414,625
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Medical Ethics
#3
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