Nature Medicine recently looked at efforts to improve patient access to results from clinical trials in which they’ve participated. In an April 7, 2015 article published online, writer Shraddha Chakradhar highlights the Penn Memory Center’s annual Thank You Breakfast for research participants, and spoke with Jason Karlawish, MD about the PMC’s efforts to loop patients back in to the research process.
Shraddha Chakradhar writes: Before instituting the breakfasts, Karlawish was struck by how participants viewed themselves in the research process. “Participants often used comparisons to being a research monkey or guinea pig and other nonhuman animals to describe their role in the research process,” Karlawish says. “It was as if their humanity was in some sense removed, but they were still willing to participate” in research, he adds.
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