IRB - Glossary of Lay Teminology
Informed consent documents must be written at a reading level that is understandable to someone with an eighth-grade level of education. The Glossary of Lay Terminology is designed to help investigators achieve that goal. It was compiled from a number of sources including the following:
- Simplification Guide to Medical Terms
The University of Michigan Medical School Institutional Review Board (IRBMED) http://www.med.umich.edu/irbmed - Alternative Lay Language for Medical Terms in Consent Forms
The University of Kentucky
http://healthcare.partners.org/phsirb/irbforms/dict2.pdf - Glossary of Lay Terms for Use in Preparing Consent Forms for Human Subjects
UC Davis, Office of Human Research Protection
http://research.ucdavis.edu/home.cfm?id=OVC,1,1063,1064 - Explaining Research Language
Office of Research Support Committees, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston http://www.uth.tmc.edu/ut_general/research_acad_aff/orsc/cphs/glossary.htm
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