Investigator Initiated Research

As a participant in a clinical trial, you have the right:

To have enough time to decide whether or not to participate and to make that decision without any pressure from the people who are doing the research.
To address any questions you have to the research team and or Principal Investigator at any time.
To refuse to participate in the study/clinical trial, and to stop participating at any time after you begin the study.
Your decision will not affect your right to your usual care not related to the research.
To be informed why the study/clinical trial is being done, what will happen, and what you will be asked to do if you are in the study.
To be informed about any reasonably foreseeable risks, discomforts or side effects that may occur during participation.
To be informed whether there are any costs associated with being in the study and whether you will receive any reimbursement for participating in the study.
To be informed who will have access to information collected about you, and how your confidentiality will be protected.
To be informed whom to contact directly with questions about the research, about research-related injury, and about your rights as a research subject.