As a subject involved in an investigational research study, you have the following rights:
- Be informed of the nature and purpose of the experiment.
- Be given an explanation of the procedures to be followed in the medical experiment, and any drug or device to be used.
- Be given a description of any attendant discomforts and risk reasonably to be expressed from the experiment.
- Be given an explanation of any benefits to the subject reasonably to be expected from the experiment, if applicable.
- Be given a disclosure of any appropriate alternative procedures, drugs, or devices that might be advantageous to the subject, and their relative risks and benefits.
- Be informed of the avenues of medical treatment, if any, available to the subject after the experiment if complications should arise.
- Be given an opportunity to ask any questions concerning the experiment or the procedures involved.
- Be instructed that consent to participate in the medical experiment may be withdrawn at any time. The subject may discontinue participation in the medical experiment without prejudice.
- Be given a copy of a signed and dated written consent form when one is required.
- Be given the opportunity to decide to consent or not to consent to a medical experiment without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, coercion, or undue influence on the subject’s decision.
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