Digital Informed Consent in a Rural and Low-Income Population

Affiliations

¹ Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson.
² Center for Telehealth, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson.
³ Mississippi Center for Clinical and Translational Research, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson.
⁴ Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson.
⁵ Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson.

Donald Clark 3rd et al. JAMA Cardiol. 2020.

. 2020 Jul 1;5(7):845-847.

doi: 10.1001/jamacardio.2020.0984.

¹ Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson.
² Center for Telehealth, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson.
³ Mississippi Center for Clinical and Translational Research, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson.
⁴ Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson.
⁵ Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson.

Abstract

This cohort study examines a process of digitized informed consent for the enrollment of a rural population in research.

Conflict of Interest Disclosures: None reported.

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