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Health Literacy in Clinical Research Website

This website provides resources to support effective communications with potential, enrolled, and past participants in clinical trials. The target audience includes clinical research stakeholders such as sponsors and funders, investigators, and study teams, and institutional review boards/ethics committees.

Topics addressed include:

  • Principles of health literacy in clinical research
  • Consideration of health literacy across the clinical trial life cycle
  • Cultural considerations

The website also includes:

  • Best practices tools and resources
  • Case study library
  • Research Participants’ Bill of Rights
Contributor Institution: 
Multi-Regional Clinical Trials Center of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard
Date Added: 

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