Blockchain protocols in clinical trials: Transparency and traceability of consent
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Blockchain protocols in clinical trials: Transparency and traceability of consent
Clinical trial consent for protocols and their revisions should be transparent for patients and traceable for stakeholders. Our goal is to implement a process allowing the collection of patients' informed consent, which is bound to protocol revisions, storing and tracking the consent in a secure, unfalsifiable and publicly verifiable way, and enabling the sharing of this information in real tim...
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عنوان ژورنال: F1000Research
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2046-1402
DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.10531.3