Involve Children and Parents in Clinical Studies

Eric Vermeulen¹, Kim Karsenberg¹, Johanna H van der Lee^{2

3}, Saskia N de Wildt^{4

5}

Affiliations

¹ VSOP Dutch Patient Association for Rare and Genetic Diseases, Project Partner of EPTRI, Third Party Member of C4C and Project Partner of PedCRIN, Soest, The Netherlands.
² Knowledge Institute of the Dutch Association of Medical Specialists, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
³ Emma Children's Hospital, Pediatric Clinical Research Office, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
⁴ Intensive Care and Department of Pediatric Surgery, Erasmus MC-Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
⁵ Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Comment

Eric Vermeulen et al. Clin Transl Sci. 2020 Jan.

. 2020 Jan;13(1):11-13.

doi: 10.1111/cts.12696. Epub 2019 Oct 24.

Eric Vermeulen¹, Kim Karsenberg¹, Johanna H van der Lee^{2

3}, Saskia N de Wildt^{4

5}

¹ VSOP Dutch Patient Association for Rare and Genetic Diseases, Project Partner of EPTRI, Third Party Member of C4C and Project Partner of PedCRIN, Soest, The Netherlands.
² Knowledge Institute of the Dutch Association of Medical Specialists, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
³ Emma Children's Hospital, Pediatric Clinical Research Office, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
⁴ Intensive Care and Department of Pediatric Surgery, Erasmus MC-Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
⁵ Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declared no competing interests for this work.

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