- Title
- Enlisting the willing: a study of healthcare professional-initiated and opt-in biobanking consent reveals improvement opportunities throughout the registration process
- Creator
- Fradgley, Elizabeth A.; Chong, Shu Er; Cox, Martine E.; Paul, Christine L.; Gedye, Craig
- Relation
- Funding BodyNHMRCGrant Number1061335 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1061335
- Relation
- European Journal of Cancer Vol. 89, Issue January 2018, p. 36-41
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejca.2017.10.025
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2018
- Description
- Biobanking consent processes should accord with patients' preferences and be offered in a consistent and systematic manner. However, these aims can be difficult to achieve under healthcare professionals' (HCPs) time-constrained workflows, resulting in low participation rates. This current perspective provides a brief overview of HCP involvement in consent and reports new data on participant attrition at each step of the biobanking consent process as experienced by 113 patients at an Australian tertiary cancer centre. To determine attrition in this HCP-driven consent process, we reviewed medical records for the following events: inclusion of biobanking consent forms; visible patient and HCP signatures; consent status selected (decline or accept) and specimen registration with local biobank. Accessible medical records revealed the following data: 75 of 85 records included viewable forms; 22 of 85 records included patient and 19 of 85 included HCP signatures; 15 of 85 records included signed and completed forms and 3 of 85 had samples banked with annotated clinical data. We compared these data with self-reported experiences of being approached to participate by HCPs. Of the 15 participants (17.6%) who successfully completed consent, only five could recall being asked and providing consent. The low enrolment rate is a considerable lost opportunity because most patients (59%) who were not asked to participate indicated they would have consented if asked. Furthermore, in comparing self-reported experiences with medical records, we believe cancer patients' preferences for participation are mismatched with actual biobanking enrolment, which has considerable attrition at each step in the consent process.
- Subject
- neoplasm; living donors; tissue banks; informed consent; patient preference
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1357420
- Identifier
- uon:31921
- Identifier
- ISSN:0959-8049
- Rights
- ©2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
- Language
- eng
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