Informed consent form clinical trial documentation

The investigator should prepare an informed consent form for every study to be performed at the institute and should obtain an approval by the IRB that covers the institute. GCP listed a dozen points to be covered by the informed consent (1C) form (see Table 23.6). The new GCP allows a reasonable amoimt of pa)unent to the patient, such as transport cost. Patients should allow clinical trial monitors, auditors, IRB members and inspectors from the regulatory authority to verify the source documents. This new requirement of obligatory written 1C is regarded as a... 

The participant also has the right to leave the trial at any time without giving the reason and without giving up their legal rights. Informed consent should be documented by means of a signed, dated, informed consent form, preferably witnessed by a third party who is not part of the clinical trial team. 

Source documents are composed of hospital records, office charts, laboratory data sheets, subject diaries, pharmacy dispensing records, recorded data from automated instruments, x-rays, etc. Source documents should be legible and should document that the subject is participating in a clinical trial. Some of the key areas to cross reference source documents to case report forms and regulatory criteria are the informed consent process, inclusion/exclusion criteria, adverse experiences, investigational product administration, concomitant medications administered to the subject during the trial, withdrawal from the study for any reason, and subjects lost to follow-up. 

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